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IN? ino MAT 28, ISIS Various LUVvll&D ut a few drops on a touchy corn, then lift corn out with fingers (oor high heels have put corns on toes and calluses on the bottom ar feet, but why care now? lor a few cents you can get a quar 1 ounce of the magic drug freezone fently discovered by a Cincinatti lius. Ipply a few drops upon a tender, pg corn and instantly, yes im liately, all soreness disappears shortly you will find the corn so le that you can lift it out, root and with the fingers. st think! Not one bit of pain be applying freezone or afterwards, loesn't even irritate the surround 1 skin. |ard corns, soft corns or corns be en the toes, also hardened callus Ion bottom of feet Just seem to pvel up and fall off without hurt a particle. It is almost magical. Is a compound made from ether a well known druggist here. |longWHted jjUj^pMinniiiHiiiHuimimmimmiimmimimiiiiiiHimiiimiiHiimte.. Millinery forDe The New Rough Sailors Black—White Red —Purple iMHmiimimNiiraiiHNiiiiiimnHimmmimnnimuiiim ffigjgv Colored $100 U4 Ifr. IgWfiJ Better Ones $1.50,$2.50,$3.50 and $5.00 New Trimmed Leghorns 1 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii niiiiiiiiiiiiiiim iiinniiiiiiiiiiiii tniiiiiiiniiitiiii Black Leghorns with white crowns trimmed wtih patent leather and various combinations, all at WHITE1 WITH OLD ROSE CROWNS WHITE WITH BELGIAN BLUE CROWN'S WHITE WITH GRAY CROWNS AH banded around the edges with same color as crowns and trimmed with flowers, only EE $5.00 I 111111X7'C New, Big Dept. Store SAVES WOMEN FROM TORTURE 602—604 Main Street must walk a as Dont viS°r°aa laids the organs of the body in forming their functions. Til diseases whether of a malig or weak character, tend to tear our vitality. You must coun |ct disease in its incipient stage UVe a bappy and use" 3LD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Cap Haarlem Oil Is'a -OO-year-old preparation that Ib n^I °T#r Vth® *rorld- contains ining oils combined with strength |ng and system-cleaning herbs capsules area prescription and been ajid are still being used by I icians in daily practice. They hJSrSJ** merit ,n I relieving ,"65 and bladder c°m- ibtL? aliments arising from ^LD8itfvn*TC acid in tlle system. LD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Cap are sold at all reliable drug bSe««arf gUa,ranteed t0 do ed or m°ney re- be misled by false 4ed. |eveT box.°0k f°r in gttot GOLD MEDAL HER STATES SON'S CASE Frorn In Front of Theatre by Mistake and Youth Afraid to Return. da£er.(t ^Tence Hedrick, with STrPerior court, Mon- «r- *al°ed at a concealed 1116 information tylky"' "^wrence SatJL* 08 from near the [ttelSrtol thinking it fhe rfrvw- After going out P** iWd iK?* *°und out his ^^-id to return. ®nd called ^70ra» *ho sent him to the 35 vy ss jj| S SCHOOLS HELP MEMORIAL DAY Soya and Girl, who Will Aid Women Committees are Named—Hours of Reporting As signed. Boys of the high school who are to assist the women in decorating the graves of the soldiers who have been buried in Oakland cemetery, will meet at the cemetery gate at 10 a. m.. May 30. The boys are: Myron Davis, Roy Happs, Oren Wood. Leo Kesselring. Carl Pflug and Rugh Montgomery. The following are names of the flower committees of the various pub lic schools 'to assist in decoration of the soldiers' graves in the afternoon of Memorial day. They will meet in the G. A. R. hall, Eighth and Main streets at 2 p. m., May 30: George Washington school—Mabel Reiser, Blanche Miller, Iioretta Roost, George Well. McDill Ayer, Junius Phillips, Willard Sutlive. Gariield school—Vivian Foulkes, Grance Henke, Elizabeth Leffingwell, Hazel Rulon, Alice May Seibert, May Tooke, Deslie Lewis, Tommy Guy. Wells school—Morris Dimond, Har old Peterson, Max Schultz. Helen Barnes, Anna Stanton, Lorine Bever ing. Grace Russell. oli|Iow. .they |ALK ERECT AT EIGHTY SwSKSS! Torrence school—Edward Reich- with I Lincoln school—Delmar Wharton. son. Ethelyn Matthes, Louisa Bode. at 9 a. m. High mass will be cele- Raymond Bckland. Arthur Welch, iirt« tiL twenty if Raymond Meyer, Annabelle Ewing, Winona Washburn, Pearl Whittaker. Carey school—Walter Leake, Quen t.in Fonlkes, Roy Grout. Joy Grout. Helen Haubert, Mildred Alvis, Alice Haggerty. Jefferson school—Rella Gammon, Frances Wright., Elsie Swanson, Mabel Hendershot. Senton Powell, Earl Elting and John Stahl. UNITARIANS IN ANNUAL SESSION Membership and Finances in Pros perous Condition—No Regu lar Services During the War. Reports made at the annual meet ing of the congregation of the Unitar ian church, Monday night showed the church to be in prosperous condition both as to membership and finances. Arrangements were made at the meet ing to liquidate a church debt As the church is without a pastor, it was decided that the congregation would have no regular services during the period of the war. All the officers and trustees of the church Were re-elected. Asaph Buck was re-elected president of the board of trustees George A. Has sail, sec retary, and A. J. Dimorad, treasurer. The other trustees who will serve are George S. Tucker, J. F. Elder and A. E. Connable. Italians on Offensive. [United Press Leased Wire Service.] ROME. May 28.—Italian troops broke through successive enemy de fenses near Capsolie to the depth of seven hunderd and fifty meters Sun day night, the Italian war office an nounced today. Considerable losses were inflicted on the enemy and 440 prisoners, four trench mortars and .ten. machine guns were taken. CIIT SUFFERS IK. STORM OF NI6HI y- Several Place* Struck by Lightning Wind Causes Damage—Wire Service Hurt, Tbow RIVERS 'RUNNING HIGH Mississippi and Des Moines Up Sev eral Feet Over Night—War Gar dens Laid Flat by the Elements. Telephone, telegraph and electric service was paralyzed, temporarily, foundations crumbled, war gardens were blown flat and crops were dam aged in some instances beyond repair in the fierce rain and electric storm which struck the city at 6:50 p. m. Monday. anH MAila*n $5.00 jj=j no .v^ marshal. He r~t the marshal to bring him back to the police station in Keokuk, where trouble was settled with the owner of the car, satisfac torily." A cupola on St Joseph's hospital be tween Exchange and Johnson streets on South Fourteenth street, was been the organization having special struck by lightning and a large hole charge of the day. It has for the past made in the roof. The flash injured few years heen a matter of pathetic one. 'regret to note the thinned ranks of The damage to the hospital is cover-1 nnen in blue vho march on Mem ed bv insurance lorJaJ —, River Rises Rapidly. The mouth of the Des Moines is like a mill race. The Mississippi was reported to be rising rapidly. At 7 a. m., today, it was 12.2 feet two hours later it was thirteen feet in stage. The slate roof on a house owned by a family named Monks, near Mooar Station, was blown off during the night storm. The foundation of a house near Tenth and Pulton streets crumbled. Wire Companies Hit. The Bell Telephone company had trouble with its lines and linemen were kept busy making repairs to day. Telegraph companies reported delays in service occasioned by the high winds and lightning strokes. Railroad service was slightly im paired. Metals Dynamo Hit. Lightning struck a wire leading to the Electro Metals company plant on street, last night and affected the current used by the plant for some time. Electricians from the Mississ ippi River Power company were called upon to help repair the dam age. ST. PETERS TO HAVE SERVICE President's daily Proclamation to be Noted, Thursday in High Mass at at 9 a. forated. Dorothy Ponins! Hili P.l.r!''"1,"' Spe- Church. Club. W. L. Pet |New York 23 10 .697 Chicago 11 .667 17 .541 TODAY'S GAMES. National League. Cincinnati in Chicago. Boston in Pittsburgh American League. Chicago in Boston. St Louis in Philadelphia. Detroit in Washington. Cleveland in New York. YESTERDAY'S SCORES. National League. Philadelphia 2 Cincinnati New York 3 Chicago 7. Boston 2: Pittsburgh l. Brooklyn 1 St. Louis 0. American League. Detroit 4 Washington 7. St Louis 4 Philadelphia 8. .Chicago 6: Boston 4. Cleveland 1 New York 2, According to the proclamation of man. Mr. and Mrs. Hiller will arrive President Wilson, Thursday, May 30, in Keoituk tomorow foT a short cisit has been set aside as a day of prayer with Mr. Hillcr's sister, Mrs. Anzm CLUB STANDINGS National League. Pittsburg 20 17 .541 Philadelphia ..... 14 18 .438 19 .424 St Louis 12 21 .364 Brooklyn 12 21 .364 American League. Club W .L. Pet. 21 13 •§18 New York 14 .576 Chicago 15 14 .517 St Louis 16 25 .516 17 .514 Philadelphia 17 .453 19 .441 18 .333 THE DAILY GATE CITY [For Society Editor call 515.] MEMORIAL DAY. There dawns no holler, day than, this, The very air Breathes out a prayer As sacred as a mother's kiss. If as I feel Ed act, I'd kneel. My father was a soldier. 'T would seem, I thinV, to one who gave This day to sport Of any sort Like trampling on his father's grave. I'd feel it so But then, you know. My father was a soldier. —W. B. Norton. First Memorial Oay. With the approach of Memorial day it is interesting to recall that it was a Virginia woman, Mrs. James Red path, who arranged the program for the first Memorial day at which the graves of all soldiers, whether union or confederate, were' decorated. This was in 1867. As early as 1865 and '66 the southern women decorated Che (graves of their own fallen men and the northern women did the same, At that time the day was known as Decoration day." In 1868 General Two and a half Inches of rain fell, inundating gardens, flooding streets jofan^^I^ganf' then" oonmandcir "in A«1 and cellars throughout the city and causing the river to rise two and a half feet. The usual June rise in the Missis sippi was moved ahead by several weeks. Hospital Struck. chief of the Grand Army of the Re public, fixed 'May 30th as Memorial day. Since that time the day has been nationally observed, although there has been no federal legislation making it a national holiday. The observance of the day was until 1868 a work of love done by .the women of the north and south. Since 1868 the Grand Army of the Republic has day- and Both the Mississippi and Des Moines another decade this Grand Army of rivers are flooding the lowlands he- ^Public must inevitably pass away since its membership is re stricted to those who served in the civil war. That Keokuk's G. A. It post is No. 2 in the order, makes Oris city have special interest and pride in, it Very recently a circular has been sent out from McCook Post G. low Keokuk today and Sugar Creek is said to be running out of its banks in places. to know that before 'the Republic must inevitably pass A. ft. at Iola, Kansas, advocating that the laws of the order be chang ed to admit into membership in the G. A. R. all sailors and soldiers of any war of the United States. The aim is to perpetuate the G. A. R-, the name being already sufficiently com prehensive to include even the sol diers now fighting in France or en-* listed for service. If this carries, it would enable some of the boys who went to Camp Dodge this morning to belong to the order to which their fathers earned membership by gal lant service in the civil war. Red Cros?s Changes. The Y. W. C, A. building will be closed Thursday because of Memorial day, and there will be no meetings for work at the Red Cross shop that' day. Those interested will please note the following changes in days of meeting: The ladies of the First Baptist auxili ary will meet Wednesday afternoon, the United Presbyterian auxiliary will meet Friday afternoon and the sewing instructors will meet Wednesday morning. Miss Schepers Weds. This morning at 8 o'clock in the St. Francis de Sales church in St. Paul, Minn., occurred the marriage of Miss' May Schepers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schepers of St. Paul, to Mr. Clem Hiller, formerly of Keokuk. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Father Bayer of Dubuque, cousin of teh bride. Miss Elizabeth Laurin son of Keokuk, a niece of the groom, was bridesmaid and Mr. John ghep ers, the bride's brother, served as best Laurinson, 1006 Concert St. CITY NEWS. —Keokuk has been a model town for the last thirty-six hours. There have been no arrests made by the police in that time. —Joseph B. Code, a Keokuk boy at tending St. Ambrose college, Daven port. Iowa, won first place in the chapel of Westminster Presbyterian church. Thursday at 10 a. m., thit the service will take place in the main auditorium of the church. A special invitaton is beng extended to all per sons havng men in service overseas or I in home camps to attend the worship hour. This is to be a union service of all churches. —A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Triplett of 1521 Concert street May 27. The baby's name is Caroline Helen Triplett —A hand writing expert, if he vol unteered his services, could find plenty to do at the city hall for the nexTfew days" A letter addressed"to if^Po^ons "The Maire and City Board" is puz zlin# councilmen. They can mak* neither head nor tail of it Council man Di J. Hemmy confesses to sit ting up nights trying to decipher the ten-page message. Apparently it is from a descendant of Davey Crockett or some other historical character as SCOUTS TO SAVE HANCOCK BERRIES Go on a Boy Troopers of Keokuk Three or Four Weeks Outing, Sunday, With War Pur pose In View. APPEAL MADE TO THEMj Older Men Take Charge -of Lads Who Will Earn Money WWIe Help, tag Conserve Food Crop. Hancock county, Hllnols, farmers have appealed to Keoknk boy scouts to help save the strawberry crop and the call has been heeded. Thirty or forty members of scout troops here will leav© for their an nual outing, four and a half miles above Hamilton, Sunday, and during their absence of three or four weeks from the city, will help gather in the luscious berries that would other wise go to waste. Earn and Serve. B. G. Weisman, scxrat commission er, saki today flrat the boys will earn money during their vacation and be performing a war service at the same time. Mr. Weisman and several scout masters will accompany the boys.. The scoutmasters will take turns re maining in Illinois to guide the activ ities at the troops. George C. Mon tague, Hubert Hopp, Arthur Lumberg and Rtoy Bartholomew will take charge from time to time. The scouts will pitch camp on a bluff and take their own cook along. SUMNER GIVES BOARD PRAISE Health Officials of Keokuk Commend ed on Social Disease Work —U. SI Man to Come Here. Personal congratulations from Dr. G. H. Sumner, secretary to the state board of health were sent to the Keo kuk board of health today because of the manner in which the social dis ease campaign here has been conduct ed. Dr. Simmer said in the course of his letter that a representative of the United States public health service would be in Keokuk and vicinity some time soon to give what ever aid may be needed to the Keolrak authorities in handling disease cases. Upon receipt of the letter, -Mayor Ed S. Lofton said: "AH of these mat ters pertaining to social disease have been strictly under supervision of the board of health. While we have had valuable assistance from state repre sentatives, all matters having to do with enforcement of the state board of health regulations as they relate to these matters, shall be under orders and direction of the board here." OFF TO THE RACES. Our two trucks will leave from the corner of Sixth and Main S^. at 12:30 Decoration day for the auto races at Donnellson. JAMES CAMERON'S SONS. CITY NEWS. —There will be no issne of The Daily Gate City Memorial day. "Mer chants should arrange their advertis ing announcements accordingly. —Both a service flag and a U. S. flag were dedicated at. a loyalty meet ing which members of the Masonic lodge held in the Masonic temple Mon day night. The Rev. Wallace R. Bacon, pastor of the First Christian church, made the dedicatory address. —Mrs. Eliza Dry has received pos tal cards from her son, Buell Dry, who is at Camp Meigs, Washington, D. C., showing a mammoth birthday cake made for "Daddy" Miller of the Y. M. C. A. forces at the camp. The cake twenty-eighth annual senior elocution 'lghed ,hIrty-flvP pounds and con tained among other things thirty-six contest, recently. His theme was The Black Sheep. The Keokuk student is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Code, 116 South Ninth street. There were a large number of contestants for speaking supremacy. —The J. C. Brewster family of Ft Madison has been notified of the death by accident of Miss Sally Moore, a niece, in Frankfort, Ind. Miss Moore was formerly a newspaper woman. The Brewsters have rela tives in Keolnik. —Contract, for supplying coal to the city of Keokuk for the next year is to he let at a near future meeting of the dozen eggs, eleven and one-half pounds of butter, twelve pounds ot sugar and thirty pounds of flour. "Daddy" Miller was sixty years old and divided his big cake among the soldiers. —If you have an empty case, please call 741 and we will send Tor It at once. Coco Cola Bottling Co. —No men who have to register June 5th will be accepted for enlistment for the army after Friday of this week. A communication to this effect has been sent to the United States recruiting office in Keokuk from recruiting head- city council. Tv,^«n~,r+ —Announcement was made this aft-1 xTonHetf?%v, ernoon that instead of having a serv 11 _m ., 1 11 iitn 11n», »-. I ft divorcc from npt uitiS'Dftnu, d• rruiK flee of prayer and humiliation in the jTTry. in the district court, today. I Drunkenness, desertion and cruel and inhuman treatment were assigned as reasons for asking leeal separation. NO PAPER MEMORIAL DAY. There will be no issue of The Daily Gate City Thursday, May 30th, Me morial day. Dally Stock Letter. [United Press Leased Wire Service.] NEW YORK. May 28.—The New York Bvening Sun financial review today said: Successive selling waves of active carried pric^ of.indiis- more in stock Sending first Mail by Airplane You just read of this incident in The Gate City last week or market while FUNERAL NOTICE. MUYER—Funeral services for tie late Mrs. Kate Meyer will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, many dates are mentioned in the let-1 from Benevolent Union Home. Burial ter,si^#Q Xnrivato. Friends invited. -£r.I *wvJftv/• V-'ti•,v j, t, *. t-sd. Ji-'-. WANTED—Dishwasher at Wittlch's restaurant, 28 South Fifth St. WAiNTED—Maid for general house work, no washing. Phone 1746, 6 Park Place. WANTED—'Position in doctor's office by a young lady with office experi ence and a high school eduction. Care W. M., Gate City. WANTED—By young couple, four room modern house, furnished with piano. Close in. Reasonable rent Per manent. Address B, care Gate City. WANTED—A handy man, one who has had carpenter experience, 35c per hour. Keokuk Metal and Window Strip Co. 515 Johnson. WANTED—Young men and women over 17 years of age, also middle aged and elderly men and women for good positions in Mt. Pleasant State Hospital. Write C. F. Applegate, Supt most of the railroad shares were firm to strong in a quiet buying movement. This was particularly true of market manifestations through the forenoon. The steel group was weak to a degree. U. S. Steel selling down over two points close to 102 and Laka.wanna reacting 3% to 81. Baldwin Locomotive dropped back be low 80. The copper stocks were most successful in resisting pressure and in one or two cases, there were gains of a fraction to a point The shipping, motor, alcohol and tobacco shares were equally soft and Distil lers Securities and American Sumatra Tobacco were especially erratic, the latter giving way over ten points at one time and again making up a sub stantial part of the loss. As for the rails there was unwont ed strength in New Haven and St. PaaL Advances of a point or so were numerous in that department Evidently the supply was very re stricted. as business was light Industrial prices showed distinct improvement through the afternoon. Recoveries of one to two points were general. Baldwin locomotive i" /',.•? TM!VK$? A O E in Appears as Belgium's world Famous "Cardinal Mercler" In Just at the time the German Invasion of Belgium begins, the town in which the Cardinal Is located, Is surrounded. He Is celebrating late mass In the Cathedral. The Germans enter and begin their work of destruction, the dominating personality of. this betoved Cardinal prevents destruction to the altar. 8BE HOW CARDINAL IWERC4ER OEFIES THE WON —ALSO— mi UP TO THE MINUTE NEW PICTORIAL EVENTS U-Boats Bottled British warship "Vindictive" leads raid on German submarine base. MissKe aveny Direct fromNow 'Orchestra Hall, Chicago' Unit Orchestra and-Organ CLASSIFIED COLUMN WANTED. WANT13D—Laborers wanted for day work. River Smelting & ReAning Co. WANTED—Girl or elderly woman. Enquire T224 Fulton or phone Red 408. WANTED—Lawn mowers and all oth er kinds of tools to sharpen. Will call for, sharpen, and return. Call Red 1190. John Dumenil, 1002 Pal ean street. WANTED—One shopman and two trainmen. Apply at car barn at once. Keokuk Electric Co. WANTED—Lawn mowers to en price 50c. Work guaranteed. George Talley, phone Black 429. WANTED—Lawn mowers to sharpen. Only 60 cents. Woodbury, 1104 Main. WANTED—At once, 10,000 doll safety razor blades to sharpen at Wood bury's, 1104 Main street. WANTED—To loan money on fonrl ture, pianos, liva atoclz, etc., on easy payments. Strictly private. Phone 962. Keokuk Loan Co. Over Miller's shoe store. SALES MEN WANTED—Several neat appearing young men aged 18 to 45, to travel and solicit business in rural districts. Permanent employment, straight salary and expenses. No cam missions. Good men are making $20 to $40 weekly above all expenses. Automobile furnished if you make good. Liberal allowance for car or rig if you now have one. Experience un necessary but must be hustler. Write for details. Address Sales Manager, P. O. Box 907-R, Des Moines. Iowa. PAGE TERES LAST TIMES Tonight—7,1:15, Ml-I 'Just A Woman1 A tremendous, heart interest photo, drama, every mother, daughter, fatti er, son in Keokuk should see this wonderful play—Everybody more than pleased yesterday. Tomorrow ,=*, ONE DAY ONLY Montagu Love "The Gross Bearer First Picture of the Battle in "Picardy** Re mar lea-fete pictures of the world's great strug gle now raging WANTED—A dining room girl at Foster's Restaurant, 423 Main. Ap ply at once. WANTED—Two boy*. Steady wwt, good wages. Apply School en'i Bakery, Inc. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—Modern honse, 8X7 Or leans, and garage. Inqnlre at &2S Orleans. Phone 1282. FOR RENT—3 rooms for light house keeping. Gas, water, toilet, electric lights. Inquire 101 N. Second St. {TOR R33NT—Garage, good condition. 312 Morgan. Phone Red 1507. FOR RENT—One 5 and one 6 room house, modern except furnace. En quire 602 Concert, Phone Red 723. FOR SALE. FOR SAZJ9—Five passenger, model B-37 Buick, in good repair and ex cellent running order, equipped with battery, 6 tires, tools, etc^ all In good condition. Formerly owned by J. A. McBlroy. Call at Keoknk Serv ice Station for inspection and demon stration. Make your proposition to Mr. Otto Jackson of the service sta tion or Mrs. J. A. MoESxoqr, 3820 Pine Grove avenue, Cfeicaguv 111. FDR SMJB—2238 Fulton—S room honse, lot 25x140. price for quick sale, $&3S.-S»e El- L- Akirich. EXDf® S&LB—<309 High, rocsn. mod' era house, fall lot. Ideal location. Price .$3,200. See-®. L- Aldrich. FOR SAI3E—Steed occn, 7 baskets, 1516 corn. 80 percent germination. Am done planting. $5j60 per to. ZW miles northwest Monlioee, lowa»_S. IS, Clemenson. JFIOR SAU3—Ford roadBtee. Telephone Red 1353^ FOR —CMS bfcycto condition, call Red 725. FOR SALE—Good sqoareMpfana, $20 Alexander appartm carta, T23 North 9 th. Phone B. 1330. LOST. LOST—CWWs white -phjne tamtam south side. Phone -Black S654. FOUND. FORIWD-^ASxmt 3,4 mile eoufh -of ilton Sunday, a lady's Jacket. Owner /-an secure-same at Finn's grocery, IS S. 4th St, by paying'foi~thls adver tisement some others-moDe-thaa made op flietr losses. Steel recrcssed 304. The rails moved. ra£her~ stoggisiily at the day's toptJevels. New York Money Karloet. NEIW YORK, May 2ft—Money on call. 6 per cent Six monflis, 5 per -cent Mercantile peeper. 6 per cent. Bar silver, London, 48%d. Bar silver, New York, 99%«l Demand sterling, $4.75^47%. Russian Peasants Uprising. MOSCOW. May 24.—lie peasants are reported in ah uprising through out Ukraine. They are burning crops, forests and machinery. Coxufitions are particularly bad in the Holtava district German artillery shelled towns in the districts of Duren, Kremtch ting. Epriatine and Mirgorod. The inhab itants of the latter region, however, defeated the Germans by employing artillery and machine guns. Other clasnes have occurred in Kaxt and itsa and Dchlotonocha. i! la good FOR SALE—Thoroughbred Buff Qp phington rooster, Becger strain. Alexander appartments, 723 North 9th. Phone Black 1330k. A 41s