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'•mNESDAT, JULY 17, T#fc
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WHITE
BLACK
PINK
SKY
ILL TWO WEEKS,
WOMAN IS DEAD
|Mra. Frank A. French Succumbs
After Short Sickness—Hus
band and Children Sur
vive Her.
Mrs. Frank A- French died at 9:20
I*. m. today after an illness of two
[weeks, at her home.
Eunice Eliza Gray was born Aug
inst 28, 1846, in Eddyville, Iowa. She
spent her early girlhood there, and
Iwas united in marriage to Frank A.
I
French on October 3, 18G7. Mrs.
I French lived to celebrate her golden
I wedding day, October 3, 1917. She
[had made her home in Keokuk since
1872, except for short intervals. She
I was a member of the First Congre
I gational church and much interested
I
In missionary and Red Cross work.
Protestor of Theology
Walks Eight Miles
with a Sixty Pound
Pack of Supplies on
His Back So His
"Boys" May Have To
bacco, Sweets and
Magazines.
BY CARL HOLLIDAY
TO
a native Yankee who can still
remember old times the word
"religion" ran hardly fail to sug
gest the more or less willing habit
of listening to two long sermons every
Sunday and of saying your prayers
before you get into bed. There may
be some clergymen remaining in
America who still consider these two
habits as absolute essentials of godli
ness, but to the American preachers
now in the war-sone religion has
come to mean something vastly differ
ent and greater.
Oh, these war parsons—how they
have dropped the shacklcs of confin
ing creeds how they have revised
the simple philosophy of Jesus—the
simple philosophy of service to one's
brother man. I have seen them under
heart-breaking circumstances "over
here," and my faith in American
preachers has suddenly gone far
above par.
DI8REGARD NON ES8ENTIAL3.
War has compelled them to slough
off all non-essentials and personal
dislikes. The harmless pleasures that
back home they had magnified into
sins they now overlook or even en
courage they have seen the sacrifice
JtLi ...
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YOUNKER COMPANY M. YOUNKER COMPANY M. YOUNKER COMPANY
Special Sale of Pure Silk
Hosiery $1
We are just in receipt of several
lots of women's pure silk hosiery, that
have have been owing us on back
order for several months.
In the meantime the cost of this hosiery has
advanced several dollars per dozen.
This is strictly a quality number with full 18
inch pure silk heavy weight boot with silk fibre
and mercerized top, specially constructed re
inforced high heel and toe, fashioned ankle
with full seam back, a stocking that can be de
pended upon for extraordinary appearance,
wear and service.
The following colors are shown:
Tomorrow on special sale, $1 per pair.
M. YOUNKER COMPANY M. YOUNKER COMPANY YOUNKER COMPANY
Mrs. French is survived by her hus
band and three daughters, Ada M.
French, of Mahaska, Alberta, Cana
da Mrs. Lillian Payne, of Monroe,
Iowa, and Mrs. Florence Tomlinson,
of MeCleod Valley, Alberta, Canada.
In addition, there are three brothers
and a sister.
The deceased lived at 1803 Concert
street
Only executive action of Governor
Stephens can now save Mooney from
the gallows.
02
SAND COCOA
TAN BROWN
SUEDE BRONZE
GREY RUSSIAN CALF
Mooney Goes to Prison.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 17.—Thom
as J. Mooney, condemned to death as
a participant in the preparedness
parade bomb outrage of July 1916, was
taken to San Quentin penitentiary at
9:45 a. m. today. He was taken from
the county jajil, through a basoment
exit in order to avoid possible dem
onstration in his behalf.
Parson and Man in Trenches are Drawn
Together by Danger and Hardship at Front
of Jesus duplicated ten thousand
times by common, wayward mortals
the battlefields of France they
Vtave regained what the American
jppeacher was in danger of losing—
•elief in the innate nobility of tne
average man.
In those very acts against which
many a parson in his home pulpit
shot his brimstone oratory, he now
gladly farticipates. He is becoming
what evltfy parson should be—most
engagingly human.
One Sunday not long ago a x. M.
O. A. secretary met a Methodist
preacher, also a secretary, K°,n^
across a French field, with a baseball
bat under one arm, a large bundle
of cigarettes under the other, md I
Bible sticking out of his pocket we
stopped, somewhat em bar
parson
rassed.
"I
j. don't know," be stammered,
"whether you will understand this.
It isn't quite orthodox, you know. I
am afraid my congregation would not
understand, and I know my bishop
wouldn't, bnt somehow (he dropped
the bat and put his hand over his
heart), somehow something in here
t»n. me that if it isn't orthodox it
is all right anyhow."
That preacher, going forth to man
age a ball game on Sunday afternoon,
was keeping more men in the right
path in those three or four hours than
possibly in any equal number of yean
Chaplain of American
iv it
Wood, Builds Fires
mnd Heats Water for
'4 «V,
KELLY IS HELD
AS CORN THIEF
Police Arrest Second Man, Alleged to
Have Been Accomplice of Mun
son—Face Federal
Charge.
Weaver Kelly is being held by the
police as an accomplice of Robert
Munson, confessed corn thief. Mun
I son admitted to Chief Hennemann
that he stole twenty bushels of corn
I from the cereal works. Kelly was ar
rested by Assistant Chief John Pear
son and Detective William Wilson,
late Tuesday. Both men are to be
I charged before U. S. Commissioner
I John E. Craig with theft from a car
in inter-state traffic. A charge of
I larceny has also been filed in the
1 superior court against the men.
Soul-sick Men Return
ing in the Dark from
the Shell-racked
renches.
in his ministry. And I think his
bishop would have understood.
I know one Episcopal bishop over
here who gets out his big black pipe,
sits down among the soldiers in the
Y. M. C. A- huts, and smokes and
talks for hours with them. Give him
thirty minutes with such a group of
young fellows and he win have them
pouring out their very souls to him.
THE SMOKING PROBLEM.
And about the smoking—how
dreadful, how sinful it was back
home! On the boat coming over, a
fellow worker remonstrated lond and
long with me about my enjoying
large, fat, black cigars—or any other
kind.
"Do you not know," he exdaimed,
"that it sets a very bad example,
and, besides, is very distasteful to
those of us who do not smoke?"
Not that the boys do not care for
sermons. I have seen them crowded
together upon the rough benches of
the huts listening to a preacher with
a reverence that I have seldom fsund
in an American church, and on a
Sunday when the sacrament is served
and they kneel by scores about the
rude platform that serves as altar,
one is convinced that religion is still
a vital force in the hearts of the
young. But they want their sermons
at opportune times and they want a
real man behind the sermna.
WW-
THE DATLY GATE OITT
E FOR JUNE
August 5 call to Induct This Year's
Registrants if Application is
Is Made, Say offi
cials.
CLASS ONE DWINDLING
Twenty-eight White and Twenty-one
Negro Selectlves Left After
Draft is Made
July 29.
Men who have order numbers as
high as 3,033 win be called up for
selective military service by the Lee
county exemption board, July 29.
This announcement was made late
this afternoon by board officials.
Thirty-three men are to go from
the county to Camp Forrest, Lytle,
Georgia.
The next call win be on August 6
when 800 men from the statei will go
to Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.
These men hi the August can will be
taken from the 1917 Registration list
but any class one man who register
ed June 5, 1918, may be specially in
ducted if physically fit
After the July 29 call there will be
left twenty-eight white pien and
twenty-one negro selects In the coun
ty.
Pioneer Doctor Dead.
[United Press Leased Wire Service.]
IOWA City, la., July 17.—Dr. Law
rence W. Little, sixty, pioneer mem
iber of Iowa medical faculty, died to
day of blood poisoning caused by the
bite of an insect on his face July 3.
His widow and five children survive.
Indian School as Hospital.
[United Press Leased Wire Service.]
WASHINGTON, July 17.—Secretary
Lane of the interior department an
nounced that the Indian school plant
at Carlisle, a., has been turned over
to the war department for hospital
purposes and for the rehabilitation
and reeducattion of sick and wounded
soldiers.
New York state socialist party de
clares for a six-hour day.
It is not by preaching but by glori
ous example that the parsons in
France are once more bringing reli
gion into its own. A congregational
minister in a Y. M. C. A. hut near
the front line expressed it well wbea
he said, "I have been preaching thS
gospel for twenty years, but during
the last three months I have learned
far more about it in selling chewing
tobacco than during all those twenty
years in the pulpit."
DENOMINATIONS FORGOTTEN.
Denominationalism? It is forgot
ten. Recently a Y. M. C. A. secre
tary, one of the most prominent of
New England Presbyterian preachers,
walked seven miles to get a crucifix
for a wounded Catholic soldier. An
other secretary, pastor of one of the
most fashionable Methodist chnrches
la Massachusetts, served without dis
crimination Catholic, Protestant and
Jew until, gassed and feverish, he
was compelled by the Association
manager of the district to go to a
hospital. Bnt, even in this condition
he turned to me with a weak smile,
and declared, "This is the life for
me! I wouldn't have missed it for
the world."
When the rector of one of the larg
est Episcopal churches in the South
Bcrres month after month in a cel
lar canteen in ths side of a hill:
-when a professor of theology walks
eight nules with a sixty-pound pack
of supplies on his back in order that
the boys with whom he lives in a
chalk quarry may have tobacco and
sweets and magazines when the
chaplain of an American university
chops wood and builds fires and heats
water for the soul-rick men returning
in the dark from the trenches, when
these things happen the most irreli
gious of ns must acknowledge that in
this hour of travaU the spirit of Jesus
has returned to the world.
We can indeed fully agree with a
raw Yankee trooper whose language
was more picturesque than select
when ho exclaimed, "I never thought
there was a hell of a lot in this Chris
tianity business, but damned if 1
don't believe there is now."
CONSCIENCE TROUBLED.
Are these war parsons changing
the conscience of the men?
There is an Indian soldier who, it
he could, would answer from the
world beyond. That swarthy fellow
bad had several talks with a Y. M.
C. A. secretary about drinking and
had promised to quit, but suddenly
temptation had overcome him, and
when be awoke in the night he found
himself locked in the guard-house.
Stung by the thought that he had
disgraced his regiment, he broke out
of his prison, obtained a gun, ran to
the trenches and out over No Man's
Land and the last that was seen of
him ia the gray dawn was his fight
ing a mighty battle with a mob of
Hung in the enemy's trenches. Only
in this way did he feel that he could
square himself with God and his regi
ment.
Whether the American church wDl
sink back after the war into its quiet
ante-bellum conservativoness and
smugness is yet to be seen. Whether
it becomes once more the most dy
namic force in civilisation depends
upon its ability to see and seize an
opportunity.
But whatever happens, those of us
who have served in Europe shall ever
remember and revere the war parson
as one who worshipped God by s«rv-
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Mlss Hovey a Bride.
Miss Leola Hovey, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Lee Hovey, 2016 Tlmea
street, was married to Sergeant Roy
M. Holm an. Camp Meigs, Washing
ton, D. C., Tuesday evening, in the
home of her parents. The ceremony
was performed by the Kev. J. H. Ma
thias, pastor of the First Baptist church
The wedding was a quiet .one, only
immediate relatives of the bride and
bridegroom attending. Sergeant OHol
man, who has made Keokuk his home
for the last eight years, went to
Camp Meigs eight months ago to on
ter service. His bride was born and
reared in Keokuk.
Jobe-Ryan Wedding.
Yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock
occurred the marriage of Miss Lavon
J. Ryan of Winchester, Mo, to Mr.
Paul Job®, the wedding occurred at
the home of Dr. F. C. Edwards, 611
Grand avenue, who officiated. The
young people wUl make their home
In this city.
McBatn—Korschgen Wedding.
Announcement is made of the mar
riage of Miss Elizabeth Korschgen,
daughter of Mrs. Fred Korschgen of
1007 Timea street, to Mr. John Mc
Bain at Rochester, Minh„ July 1st.
The young people have returned to
Keokuk and are now keeping house
at 709 Concert street. Mr. McBain ia
manager of the Keokuk Canning com
pany.
Bridge Party Sponsors.
Mrs. A. C. Docker, Mrs. Charles J.
Kirch and Mrs. John A. Dunlap will
be sponsors for the bridge party
Thursday evening at the Country club,
to which all members and their guests
from out of town are invited.
Need More Sweaters.
Friday morning, sweater wool will
be given out at the supply shop in Dr.
Fuller's office, corner Fifth and Blon
deau. The committee announces that
the present stock of wool is not the
same shade as that giyen out two
weeks ago, but Is of a very good qual
ity. There are stiU a number of
sweaters to be made to fill the second
quota.
Miss Smith Entertains.
Miss Bernlce Smith entertained a
party of girls at a delightful party last
night at her home, 126 Blondeau street
in honor of Miss MaJble Poison, of
Centerville, and Miss Hazel Husted.
of Rutledge, Mo.
Business Women's League.
Covers were laid for forty-seven at
the supper given last night preceeding
the regular monthly meeting of the
Business Woman's league. The tables
were arranged in the form of a cross
and were attractively decorated In
jardenairs of sweet peas. The com
mittee which planned the supper ajid
the evening's entertainment was Miss
Leota Jester, Misses AUce, Frances
and Josephine Kennedy, Miss Laura
Kelley and Miss Lucinda Kensett The
new members who were present for
the first time were Miss Lida Buss,
Miss Lena Chapman and Miss Jester.
Miss Immegart, the president, pre
sided and appointed the committee to
arrange for the supper and business
meeting on August 20, as follows:
Miss Elizabeth Laurinson, Misses
Katherlne and Nellie Koeife, Miss Flos
sie Laurinson, Miss Ruth Miller and
Miss Olive Lemon.
Rontine reports were made and it
was decided to have a social meeting
or picnic in August, to be arranged for
by Misses Nellie Hill, Mildred Powers,
Mary Severing, Florence O'Brien
and Mamie Schenk. Plans were made
for the annual camp at the Nichols
cotage, August 5-19. All who wish to
attend the camp are asked to notify
Miss Elsie Bank. The Y. W. C. A.
girls who have just closed a camp,
generausly loaned cots to the mem
bers of the league, which loan was
gratefully acknowledged. The fol
lowing were elected to membership:
Miss Clara JellifT, Miss Nellie Watson,
Miss (Mamie McAndrew, Miss Hazel
Bullard and Miss Mary Hurley.
NOTICE.
A notice has been sent out to all
soldiers or their widows of the Civil
and other wars th%t they are entitled
to exemption to go before the assess
or or any county officer or notary
public to sign the card sent The law
requires an oath in such cases and the
failure to print such oath on the as
sessment rolls this year makes this
necessary.
If anyone knows of anyone not in
the city at the present time if they
leave their address with me I will
send them a card or will furnish cards
to anyone from the county auditor.
J. R. DIMOND, ASSESSOR.
CARTHAGE
WILL FEED 100
Commercial Club's Monthly Dinner
Tonight to Attract Large
Crowd From Keokuk
to Illinois.
More than a hundred men and
women, members of the Keokuk
Commercial club and their wives,
will motor to Carthage, 111., at 5:30
p. m. today to attend a 7 o'clock din
ner served by the comfort kit com
mittee of the Red Cross chapter
there. The club members will prob
ably have their monthly business
meeting, although It is intended to
make a sociable out of the affair,
largely.
The profits of the tHnner will be
tised by the Carthage women for the
purchase of Red Cross materials.
The dinner is to be served in the
Presbyterian church. Motor cars will
leave the Industrial association be
tween the hours of 5:30 and 6 o'clock.
Those in charge of the Keokuk
tour are James M. Fulton, secretary
J. P. Ingle and C. W. Durrett Mr.
Durrett is vice president of the club.
—Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Meister, 1413
Blondeau street, are thf» parents of
a daughter, horn Monday, July 15.
ERECT PARK TENTS
S«ven Various Activities Including
Fraternal Bodies to b« Repre
sented at Chautauqua
This Year.
SERVE AS INFORMANTS
Food Administration, Boy Scouts,
Knights of Columbus and Ottv
era to be on Grounds
During Week.
Seven display tentB will be a fea
ture on the Chautauqua grounds *t
Rand park this year. The organiza
tions which will have the tents are
Knights of Columbus, Red Cross,
young Men's Christian association.
Knights and Ladies of Security, Boy
Scouts and the county food adminis
tration.
Information will be given at each
tent of the war activity which that
particular organization is promulgat
ing.
The natural
am
George Patterson, turnkey at the
county jail, had three gallons of
whisky in a box when he was arrest
ed late last night on the levee by
Policeman William La Feber. Pat
terson arrived in a taxicab from Ham
ilton in an Intoxicated condition, the
police say. He is said to have told
the officers he got the liquor In War
saw and then went to Hamilton.
A butcher in Hamilton called a
taxicab and helped 'Patterson Into
the vehicle, U. S. Deputy Marshal T.
P. Gray was informed.
Patterson waived" to the federal
grand Jury on a charge of illegal
transportation when arraigned before
IT. S. Commissioner John E. Craig to
day.
Over There
Albert .Conradt, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Conradt of 27 Plank road,
is now in France and ready to wage
battle against the Huns. Mr. Con
radt will see active service as a
member of the 33d Englners, U. S.
army. He went to Camp Dodge Feb
ruary 23, and later to Camp Devlns,
Mass.
Private J. C. Ray is now among
the American troops overseas. Ray
is with the 315th Mobije Veterinary
section, headquarters military polioe.
He left Keokuk April 30.
PEKSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. McManus and
family and Mr. and Mrs. Karl Hem
my have motored to Des Moines, in
the McManus car. Mrs. McManus and
children will go to Nebraska follow
ing a visit in the capital city.
Miss Elizabeth Thompson and Mrs.
M. M. Curry of St Louis are visit
ing at the home of C. A. Devero.
Miss Grace Patterson of Peoria is
a visitor at the home of her grand
mother, Mrs. C. B. Merrick, 1123
Reid street
CITY NEWS.
—The Keokuk Concert band played
a musical program for the Eagles,
Elks. Moose and their families at
Dickinson's grove, Tuesday night A
large crowd attended the band per
formance.
—Clarence C. Jackson. 1422 Main
street has been called by draft His
orders will take him first to Des
Moines. He and his wife are planning
to go to that city Friday morning where
he will enter active serine. Jackson
Is a fireman on the Rock Island rail
road. Mrs. Jackson was formerly Miss
Neola Ribyn.
—Members of the Military, aesthe
tic and gymnasinm classes of the
Young Woman's Christian association
will be allowed to bring' a friend to
the picnic supp«r at Chute's beach
Thursday night. The crowd will start
for the beach on the Ri* o'clock car.
—Forty men attended special drill
for selectives in the High Tension
club roms. last night.. These are the
men who will be called into military
service this month and early in Aug
ust Captain Clarence E. Powell has
been drilling them for two weeks..
The men will have an open-air drill
next Sunday morning, probably near
the Standard Four Tire company plant
H. G. Sutherland of the army recruit
ing station and G. W. Danielsson, phy
sical director of the Y. to. C. A. have
been helping to drill the men.
—Sheriff John Griffin, of Des
Moines, has asked the Keok'ik police
to help him find a four-pnsseneer
"Chandler car which has brrn stolen.
The license number is 311147. The
r'"• ^r,r*
pi theatre in the
center of the park will be used as
chautauqua grounds. The grounds were
laid out today by Harvey Beach and
a commitee of men in preparation for
the program which begins July 22.
The ticket sale for chautauqua is
running ahead of that of last summer.
The government had riven personal
endorsement of the chautauqua and
will provide a speaker for one ses
sion.
TURNKEY HELD
AS TRANSPORTER
Police Arrest County Court House
Employe on Charge of Bring
ing Whisky From
Hamilton.
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CLASSIFIED COLUMN
WANTED.
WANT property in Keokuk or vicin
ity in exchange for Des Moines
property. Give description and loca
tion in flrst letter. Dave Itoop, 820
Kirkwood Ave., Des Moines.
WANTED—Cabinet makers.
Carter Manfg. Co.
FO(R RENT—Seven room home
bath, gas good repair. Black 17S0L
FOR RENT—Seven room house.
steam heat, gas, garden, in fine
neighborhood, and on car line. 818
North Thirteenth St. Apply to O, A.
Has
sail, 201 Mala SL
FOR RENT—Either four or six
rooms, unfurnished modern except
furnace. 1008 Franklin. Phone Black
662.
FOR SALE.
FOR SAiLB OR TRADE—160 acre
farm, well Improved, near good ship
ping point, in Hancock county. Will
trade for small farm or city property.
See R. H. liowen. Hamilton, Illinois.
•Phone 178.
FOR SALE OR TRADE—120 acres In
Adams county, Illinois. This farm
is located about 12 miles from Qulncy,
has a good barn, a good four room
house, well fenced, one of the best
springs in the state is oo this farm.
For particulars, write or see B. H.
Bowen, Hamilton, Illinois.
FOR SALE OR TRAJDH3—340 acres
one mile from a city of 2,500 peo
ple in northern Mo., with 3 good rail
roads, has a good barn and out build*
lngs and a house of 5 rooms, a small
orchard. Thin place Is a bargain. See
or write R. H. Bowen. Hamilton, Illi
nois. Phone 176.
FOR SAliB—A young Hoi
stein cow.
Just fresh cheap if sold at once.
1022 Carroll street.
FOK SALE OR TRiADE—80 acres in
northern Missouri, 4% miles from
good town. This Is a remarkable
bargain. See or write R. H. Bowen,
Hamilton. I1L Phone 176.
FOR SALE—Garr Scott traction en
gine, six H. P., six roll Interna
tional corn shredder all In good con
dition. Hd Schwartz, Keokuk, Iowa,
R. 2. Phone 2307 3.
FOR SALE)—1916 model Ford good
condition bargain for 300. Must
sell this week. F. A. Jemison, Mont
rose, Iowa.
FOB. SALE—One or two Dodge Broth
ers' rebuilt cars available for de
livery. Ayer Motor Car Co.
FOR SALE—One horse, $15. Phone
Med 1402.
LOST.
LOST—Gold wrist watch, Saturday
afternoon, between Lowitz store
and Fourth and Morgan. Please jre
turn to this office. Reward.
LOST—Jewelry pinned to a cloth.
one week ago, from 619 South
Sixth. Return to this office. Reward.
MISCELLANEOUS.
NORTHERN IOWA LANDS—We
have for sale, some 4,000 acres of
northern Iowa land, a large part of
which must be sold as owner desires
to dispose of the holdings. Also sev
eral good Minnesota and Dakota
farms. These farms must be sold. If
interested, write Dunn Bryant &
Clough, First National bank building.
Mason City, Iowa.
GOVERNMENT NEEDS 20,000 women
Clerks at Washington. Examinations
everywhere in July. Experience un
necessary. Women desiring govern
ment positions write for free particu
lars to J. C. Leonard, (Former Civil
Service Examiner,) 1S6 Kenois Bldg„
Washington.
FARM FOR SALE—Well improved
farm of 280 acres, located between
Lnray and Wyaconda, in Clark coun
ty, Missouri owned by estate of
Thomas E. Ochiltree, deceased. In
quire of C. W. McClure, No. 600 N.
Tenth street. Keokuk, Iowa, or O. S.
Callihan, Kahoka, Mo.
car is blue and gTeen in color and
has wooden wheels.
Convoy Duty Man Returning.
To cross the ocean to France four
'times on convoy duty is an experience
I the war has brought to John Kaut,
jsor, Exchange strev.t, who is now on
his way home to enjoy a ten day's fur
lough from his ship, the Rochester.
Though traversing the danger zone
often,
Kaut has onTy seen one qjibma
rino.
I His wife left Tuesday for Chicago,
where she will meet her husband.
Kaut has been in the navy a year
He visited in Keokuk in February,
but hasn't seen the relatives since
that time. }.
FUNERAL NOTICE
FRENCH—Funeral services for the
late Mrs. F. A. French will be held at,,
4 o'clock Thursday afternoon from the
Congregational church 6th and High
St.
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ApptT
WANTED Dishwashers at
Syngel cafe.
once.
WANTED—To exchange an old es
tablished business in county seat
for small farm. Write or see R. H.
Bo
wen, Hamilton, 111. Phone 176.
WANTED—Used Ford must be in
good condition late model pre
ferred. Call Red 1420.
WANTED Boarders, 729 Carroll
street
WANTED—Two good lathe men and
laborers. Pechsiein Iron Works.
FOR RENT.
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