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DAGGER
IN THE BACK
__al"s tii® woman's dread when
e~gets up in the morning to start
day's -work. "Oh! how my back
hes." GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil
.psules taken today ease the back
,'iclie of tomorrow—taken every day
lends the backache for all time. Don't
Melay. What's the use of suffering?
-Begin taking GOLD MEDAL Haar
lem Oil Capsules today and be re
lieved tomorrow. Take three or four
every day and be permanently free
from wrenching, distressing back
pain. But be sure to get GOLD
MEDAL. Since 1696 GOLD. MEDAL
Haarlem Oil has been the National
•i .Remedy of Holland, the Government
I of the Netherlands having granted a
special charter authorizing its prepa
ration and sale. The housewife of
Holland would almost as soon be
without bread as she would without
her "Real Dutch Drops," as she
quaintly calls GOLD MEDAL Haar
lem Oil Capsules. This is the one
season why you will find the women
and children of Holland so sturdy
and robust.
GOLD MEDAL arc the pure, origi
nal Haarlem Oil Capsules imported
direct from the laboratories in Haar
lem, Holland. But be sure to get
GOLD MEDAL. Look for the name
on every box. Sold by reliable drug
gists in sealed packages, three sizes.
Money refunded if they do not help
you. Accept only the GOLD MEDAL.
All others are imitations.
FRATERNAL CARDS
MASONIC.
Third floor Masonic Temple,
Seventh and Blondeau.
Eagle lodge No. 12, holds Its regu
flar meeting the first Tuesday evening
pet each month. Geo. Banks. W. M.
Alvin Kraft, secretary.
Gate City Chapter No. 7, K. A. M.
^regular meeting second Friday of
each month. O. W. Young, H. P.
F. C. Stockton, secretary.
Hardin lodge. No. 29, holds its regu
lar monthly meeting the first Mon
day evening of each month. C. G.
Meister, W. M. Geo. Duerkop, secre
tary.
Elmira Chapter No. 40. O. E. S
holds its regular meeting the first
Thursday of each month. Masonic
Temple, Seventh and Blondeau. Miss
Carrie F. Hanson, W. M: Mrs. N.
Halm, secretary.
DAMASCUS COMMANDERY NO. S,
K. T.
Meets regularly every third Thurs
day In each month. Visiting breth
ren cordially invited to attend. Frank
J. Venning. E. C. Beranrd W. iier
jiam, Rec.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD
FELLOWS.
5 Keokuk lodge No. 13. O. O. F-,
meets regular every Monday night
at 7:30 o'clock. C. EL Mackie,
N. G. F. M. Pugh, Rec. Sec'y. Visit
ing brothers invited to attend.
Puckechetuck lodge No. 43, meets
every Friday evening at 8:00 o'clock.
A. W. Jones, N. G. George W. Im
megart. permanent secretary.
Puckechetuck Encampment No. 7,
meets first and third Thursday even
ings of each month. Jchn Eisenhuth,
financial scribe.
MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA,
GIBBONS HALL.
Keokuk Camp No. 02-, meets every
Wednesday evening at 7:30 p. m. Our
latch string is out to neighbors. F.
B. Wilson, V. C. N. J. Hancock, cleric.
B. P. O. ELKS.
Keokuk lodge No. 106 meets first
and third Thursday nights at Elks'
hall, Sixth and Blondeau streets
Club rooms open daily. Visiting breth
ren cordially invited. G. Lloyd Nor
jnan, E. R. Leroy J. Wolf, secretary.
FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES.
Keokuk Aerie, No. 683, meets first
and third Wednesday of pqch month
at Eagle's hall, 407 Blondeau street
Visiting brothers cordially invited.
Hugh R. Crawford. W. President
Charles A. Noakes, W. Secretary.
K. OF r.
Homing Star lodge No. 5, meets
lat
Fifth and Blondeau, K. of P. build
ing, Tuesday at 7:30. O. W. Rowe,
chancellor commander: J. A. Burgess,
JC of R. and S. Visiting Knights fra
•ternally Invited.
•KNIGHTS AND LADIES OF SEOTTR
,1TY, KEOKUK COUNCIL NO. 1039
s'
Mayme C. Schenk, financier
Blanche Maritroer, secretary.
o'clock. H. C. Dose. president
ROY AT, ARCANTTM.
ren fraternally Invited to attend. Q.
C. Montague, regent J. Annable,
secretary.
AMERICA HOLDS
POWER BALANCE
In Fifth Year of Greatest Struggle In
the Time of Man, United
States Leads in
Power.
MEN OF FIGHTING HEART
Yankees Will Not Consider the Job
Completed Until the Allies
Have Won the
Victory.
[By Fred S. Ferguson, United Press
Staff Correspondent.]
[Copyright, 191S, by United Press.]
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, July 1 (try mail).—As the
world war enters its fifth year, the
fighting farces of America hold the
balance of power in the greatest
struggle in the time of man.
The fighting men of America have
been tried on the world's most his
toric battlefields, and have proven
that for bravery, for stamina, for all
of the things that it takes to win
battles, they need bow to none.
The American in the field is a
man of a fighting heart.
He represents America's balance
of power that will carry the democ
racies of the world to victory over
German autocracy.
But how this power Is adminis
tered. how it is led, how it is equip
ped, how it is fed, how it is clothed,
how it is munitioned, how it is given
"eyesight" by airplanes that it shall
not fight in the dark, how It is
nursed when ill and wounded—upon
Chemin Des Owdm.
J*®" °®ar
.«till
Mrs.
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE.
Keokuk lodge No. 704, meets every iwas the extreme test
"Tuesday night at 8:00 p. m., In Moose lamina to date, and was met glori
.hall, corner of Sixth and Main. Visit- ously. The best traditions of Amerl
£ing brothers cordially invited. A. E.
{Moore, dictator A. L. Laubersheimer,
"secretary.
Nearly Three Million Head Have Been
Destroyed During the War.
Since the outbreak of the war France
liaS suffered a loss of 2.600,000 head of
cattle. Allowing 1.000.000 for the loss^
due to the invasion of the ten depart-
ments of northern France, there re
mains a diminution of 1,600,000 head.
Moreover, the cattle that are left have,
greatly lost in weight. Before the war.
the average weight In meat of slaught
ered cattle was from 770 to'800 pounds,
whereas, today it hardly exceeds 550
to 670 pounds,
Jn*
ville, and later near Verdun and in
when it was to their advantage not
to shoot. They became trained, re
liable troops. When the gigantic
German offensive broke in March
some were put permanently into the
line in the Bacarat region and north
wept of Toul in the place of French
divisions which were rushefl away to
the big battle line. Others followed ways:
French, and in Picardy took
ca were more than fulfilled.
German ru=h toward Paris
in
The
nrnurrn iii CD*llf*C •^lnerlca-ns on the winding Marne, In- have ix»rfeeted "Number 40 Fnr Ji#WI
CATTLE REDUCED IN FRANCE
of
u.,
Changed Course of War.
the best type of
the cause of democracy in theiwithout
Instinct of the American had only-to
be Btirred to respond. Instead of
requiring long peripds of training, he
had shown that with the instruction
he had received at home, when he
stepped from the transport to French
soil he was ready.
On the Marne the American proved
his worth as a stout-Hearted open
field fighter, either on defense or
offensive.
At Cantigny be displayed his quail
ties as a "storm troop."
There was a vast difference be
tween the fighting at Cantigny and
about ChateAu-Thierry. On the Marne
it was first, resistance against wave
after wave of advancing Germans
coming across open country, through
waving wheat fields or woods. Every
third man carried a machine gun. The
American was forced to find such cpv
er as he could, also !n the open. From
behind a rock or from a hastily dug
hole in the ground he poured his rifle
and machine gun fire into the Boche
lines. Then he fonght his way for
ward and drove the enemy from his ad
vantageous positions in Bourcbes and
Bois De Bellean. Behind the fighting
man the munition men and wagons
worked tirelessly to keep him sup
plied. Positions were constantly be-
these things depends the distance to, conjunction with the tanks Then
victory came the signal, the soldiers "carry
No Pause Till Victory. log" the barrage began waving the
It may be near, or it may be far, green branches, the infantry and
and Americans. Frenchmen. British-j tanks moved forwards and the "Ger
ers (and Germans) may know that |man" machine guns began firing. As
the American fighting man will not! the barrage moved forward, lines were
consider his job done until the allied reformed, and the advance continued,
cause is victorious. But the distance The machine gun nests were cleaned
is not to be measured by the resist- out in good shap£, but the clever
ance of the German alone. Incom-! French machine gunners "put over"
petence at home, faulty leadership one on the Americans that they did
in any of the branches dealing with not forget when it came to the real
the war, is going to mean a longer battle.
path, and a path dyed with American Frenhmen In Tree.
blood. In the center of the mimic battle
Representatives of America's bal- ground was a tree. One of the tanks
ance of power are arriving in France waddled slowly b^ and a detachment
by hundreds hourly. As this is writ- ©f infantry dashed forward. Then,
ten more than 1,000,000 men have tram apparently nowhere, a fierce rat
landed. Every man brings the hour ue machine-gun fire burst on the
of victory nearer, but the adminis
tration, the leadership, must be be
hind him.
I have been with the Americans
in every important action to date,
from the first raids in Lorraine to
the taking of Cantigny in Picardy
and the second battle of the Marne.
Americans. The officer in charges of
the detachment knew that he was
The men taking part in these actions! their fire until the tank had passed,
were from every corner of the United
an(j
States. They ranged froA newly en- an them. The tank was signalled
listed men to veterans. to come back to put a cannon shot
more than any other American would
But always there was the same jlnto the tree. This done, so that they bled profusely. This episode closed
spirit, regardless of the difficulty or
vere
the task or the hardships Involved: Frenchmen climbed out of the tree in
cheerful obedience of orders, anxiety
ent
have done. preparation had demolished the Ger
in man trenches, but the Americans went
During the early months of this.
theoretically destroyed, the
lee
to get at the Job and complete it. ,t
came to
and certainty in execution and *h Americans were as cool as in the re
modest discla.mere of having done Learea,. They followed the tanks
any more than was t^eir duty,, or
over and ran abead
the real fight, tho He
them in their
jjUglasm The withering artillery
thg
,Qb
of
year, the Americans in France were village of any remaining
merely training. They could not Boche in a businesslike fashion. Then
figured as real fighting units lcarae the job of holding on.
intricate same of trench warfar counter attack after counter attack
First, northwest_of Toul. then on tbejwaa
"mopping up," and clear-
hurled
gainst the new American
ijne. The artillery fire was so hot ra-
partjeg could not come
Alsace, American {being no communicating trenches.
FreenchT6andP soldiers and officers
when to keep quiet—in other words, tion that is going to keep him fed |wni
Ssneets the first and third Monday of 1 the French, and in Picardy took I "Now everything is all right. May- Miss Azalea Little, who has been
each month at Woodman hall at 8:00 their place in the line which they jbe my wound is almost unbearably
by tho capture of Cantigny.
On the Marne as bright a page as
is to be seen in American history
was written by the Americans who
Keokuk council No. 53S meets third stopped the German advance there.
JFriday each month. Hawkes hall. For five days they fought unceas
Elghth an*„ Main^ is!tins: breth- ir.Klv. They mr "the best divisions
the German high command could
throw against them. All were turned
baek. Munition carriers, ambulance
men, supply men—in fact everyone—
"worked, or fought, day and night. It
of American
hold, and which they extended jpainful. Maybe I have been witho«t
op, there
t^^ d^ men^ntg
alike learned from their French ia-s!e€5'/ JjLf
structors the tactics of the-new warjed onhard tack andiraw
°®^9
ba«n.•
game. It was an irksome job. Losses jtb^y held on. And as the Americans
were always unnecessarily heavy at:on the Marne, they are there today.
first. Then the Americans began to Confidence IBoundless.
learn. They learned how to take The confidence of the American sol- ..
cover during shell fire. They learned Idler in his officers, in the organiza-•
and clothed, and in the doctors who
veins, the boy drops off to sleep.
This confidence of the fighting maa
A FOOL AT 40
America paid a price in "lives _f I statement that you have tried one bot- .J*
Bati*,af:tory
fiEhtinR on the Marne. "Vut 'dnrtn^ scrofulous dih-ax-, for blood poison. 1 t'^f
those five days when a thin line
0
ns stood between" the Ger-1
liv,r an1
Americans stood
man and
tire course
months was changed. The Ameri- iEvansville, Ind.
can, despite his „lack of technical I Sold by all druggists or sent any
training, had won for himself a (where on receipt of price $1.25 per!f:-rf
place in the line of battle alongside bottle or six bottles $7.00 by J. C. f?'
the seasoned^ troops of the allies. He Mendenhall Medicine Co., Evansville, tiW*
had demonstrated that the lighting Indiana.
the road to Paris, the en- ition-
rse of the war for the coming
It is an old proverb that every maa!r~ fnrtoa*b. The latter
is either a fool or a physician at 40. .olstidMly *nd expects to
Well I fooled along for 40 years in few weeks.
W3S the ^niT Kiiainaoa anH r»Mnf HO —1
drug business and practice of J*®
to new heights at Uie meaicme uiai 1 uiuujut anu *ubw Is 1® r*ry poor
Amorinan .i, these could offer the public with impunity. naif* lit for
not ctorb. .hould »j,h yon 1 win IM
I you your money by mail if you re- fJalton.
turn the front of the carton with the Oi«n P. JMWClifford N.
result for
or in
ls
was chanced. The AmA~4 iEvannvillp. Ind.
fichronlc rheumatism, malaria, chroafe j!-• r**1! iL.—
In the organisation behind him must
not be shaken. As the number of
men In France Increases the problem
of food, clothing and medical atten
tion multiplies. The ground work of
{meeting all of these problems has
been laid in France in .the shape of
gigantic warehouses, railway lines
and vast docks at the seaboard. Upon
the war organization at home falls
the burden of keeping them supplied.
Not All May Fight.
Insofar as man power is concerned,
it should also be remembered that
1,000,000 men in France does not
mean 1,000,000 fighting men. Taking
a division as a unit it reuqires ap
proximately 12,000 men and from 6,000
to 8,000 horses to ke»p 17,u00 bayonets
and artillery In the line. Multiply
this by the number of times 17,000
men you 'believe it will take to win
the war, and you can estimate the
total number of men who must be
transported and cared for.
America's infantry and artillery
that has been in action has made
good.. The American fliers now on
the front aro using French machines
chiefly. They have taken quickly to,
the game. German machines have
been brought down, and German
towns have been bombed. But there
are acres and acres covered with
ing changed. Food was uncertain. But! French and British hangars and air
the American hung on, and is there
today.
Rehearsing Cantigny.
At Cantigny the American showed
his adaptability to carefully planned
movements. I witnessed a complete
rehearsal of the attack on Cantigny
days before it actually took place. It
was in a great open field back of the
lines. French machine gunners played
the role of Germans. They had their
machine guns hidden in pits and else
where in the field. Other soldiers,
forming a lopg line, waved green
branches of trees to represent the ar
tillery barrage. French tanks wad
dled across the field and took up posi
tions corresponding to those they
were to take in the actual fighting.
French and American officers careful
ly instructed the men who were to
make the attack as to just how they
were to follow the barrage, how ma
chine gun nests were to be cleared
out. and how they were to work in
planes in France. On a single night
I saw more than 100 French planes
leave one field on a single bombing
expedition. This is a nightly occur*
rene, not only from this field, but
from scores of others. We have yet
to show our power in the air.
MEMPHIS, MO.
On Sunday, July 28, a home guard
tournament will be held at the Mem
phis fair grounds. Ten companies. of
guards will be here to take part in
the competive drills, and a large
crowd is expected to be present. The
program follows:
10:00 a. m. Band concert and pat
riotic songs by chorus.
11:20 Invocation, Rev. E. B. Thomp
son.
11:25 Song, America.
11:30 Address, Colonel John I.
Martin.
12:30 Basket dinner on grounds.
1:30 Music by band and chorus.
Companies assembly.
2:00 General review Home Guard
companies.
2:20 Competitive company drills.
Competitive squad drills.
Closing number Sham battle.
Program subject to change.
'1Cy" Mason sends an additional
list of "old timer" ball players from
this vicinity who have been asked to
participate in the big Red Cross ben
efit game to be played at Corydon,
Iowa, on Labor day. The additional
players are Dirk and John Shacklett
of Gorin and Steve and John Hunolt
of Edina.
theoretically wiped out. Every man north of Granger, had a somewhat
dropped to the ground for cover, as 'nerve racking experience last Satur
he would in a real engagement, and jday, while helping her father shock
then looked for the machine gun fire, ioats. While she held a large bundle
The Frenchmen had mounted it in in her hands preparatory to setting
the tree. They had also withheld it into the shock, a huge snake
flounced from the headed end and
fell squarely across her face and
shoulders, lacerating the skin on her
nose in its struggle until that organ
made their play for the men—
Miss May Kerr, living five miles
May's career as a harvest band, at
least for the season.
Fred Bell writes from St. Joseph.
says that he was married'
on July 4 to Miss Faye Work
man. of Milton. Iowa, and ex
pects to make St. Joseph his future
home. He has a splendid position in
a wholesale grocery house, says work
of all kinds is plentiful with many
jobs open.
Frank L. Grinstead writes his fath
er that he has passed all necessary
examinations for a Y. M. C. A. secre
taryship and is at his home in Col
ville, Washington, awaiting a call.
Clarence Rex, who was in charge
of a laundry in this city several years
ago now resides In Washington, D. C.,
where he has a clerical position in
the war department. He is not in the
draft, but will leave August 1, for
France on a mission for the govern-
Mrs. E. Brainerd accompanied by
Miss Verna Green departed last Thars-
day for
are going to care for him when he ia find the climate beneficial to
wounded, is boupdless.
A wounded man arriving at afield
hospital or dressing station displays
May­
sleep and maybe I am tired that's all
Colorado Springs, where they
spend
mer
the remainder of the sum-
jn the hope that Mrs. Brainerd
her health
Neil Johnston, son of Mrs Maude
Johnston, left St. Louis, Monday
a child-like confidence in the doctor night, July 15, after successfully en
who bends over him. If unspoken, jjgting in the nary as second class
written on the boy's face, there is al- 5 seaman. He was sent to Great Lakes,
!m
ro»A
a
over now. Here's the man who will homefolks In this city.
take care of me." (young man. LfrwU Moore, of
His wound dressed, his blood' again! GalHn lows, was killed by the east
sent coursing warmly through bound A W- train last
the past nix weeks, with
r-qitttn*t baking powder demonstrar
(tln
crew, fs spending her vacation
'flatorday
H® was In a Ford
car and was raring to beat the train
to the cro**lng when th« collision oc
cured-
II#
stomach trouble, const)p»-1 Til# JTZ«_
was a mwmber of the Lan­
caster Home Guard* company.
Mr and Mm. O. A. Andres and son.
Cooper, vlsltod with their son, Li«ut
wiant Part ft. Andrtm, who joined
Marry
stopped The morale of the French medicine befor I perfected a blood tor thtir home In Kan- ... o. tit,
medicine that I thought and knew UlaV-rypoor health -1consisting of CJ. D. Streeter, E. F.
turu uie "uui nun uib -v- -wmtktir (71
Iffora w.
an? disease for which J«l»es#t*f w(
recommended. J. C. Mendenhall, eftf I***
fthanes depart-
several
Ive* In
2 Alon-
Mafttfftl f. Oarman,
from
ties fn this
Messrs.
to*m m**t*th
A 4-
TWO HUNDRED
LID IN CELLARS
Old People and Children Who Remain
ed In Chateau-Thierry After
the Germans Took
Town.
SIX WEEKS OF MISERY
Nothing to Eat Exoept Few Vegetables
Which Huns Did Not Care
for Them
selves.
[By Frank J. Taylor, United Press
Staff Correspondent.]
CHATEAU-THIERRY, July 22.—
(night)—"Ah, les Americans! They
are fine boys, brave. When we re
build our city it will always be a
home to Americans. We will be
proud to make them welcome."
Thus spoke the aged Leon Tolson
a councilman, of Chateau-Thierry,
who refused to leave the town when
the Germans captured it Although
Toison is eighty-two years old, he
took charge of the city affairs and as
sisted in every way possible the "two
hundred" as the survivors of six
weeks of Boche domination are
known.
'I interviewed Toison this after
non. He 1b a small man, slightly bent,
but vigorous and bright-eyed. We
stood among the battered ruins along
the main street. Not a building left
standing was inhabitable here. We
were behind a barricade erected by
the Germans, who had used boxes,
earth, refuse of all kinds and cob
blestones, torn from the street.
"When the Germans were coming
were advis^ to flee at once, but I
couldn't bring myself to do it," said
Toison. I've seen Chateau-Thierry
captured by the Germans thre times.
The first In 1870. I was wounded dur
ing the fighting then. The next was in
1914, the first invasion of this war.
The last was six weks ago.
"Most of the others evacuated, but
the "two hundred" decided to stay.
Many of the old folks would have
been unable to leave anyway. There
were about a dozen children and a
few middle aged people, but most of
us were pretty old.
"During the bombardment we lived
in caves and cellars, without havin.r
enough to eat and without knowing
where to get anything. We were
buoyed up by the hope that Chateau
Thierry again would be French.
'Meantime, our houses were crumb
ling over us. The Germans ordered
us to stay in our cellars except when
we were permitted to leave. Not hav
ing sufficient food themselves, they
ordered the old men out every day to
bring vegetables from the fields, be
hind Germans lines. Then the sol
diers would come and take away
practically all we brought in. We had
no bread, no fats, no wines, and were
struggling to live on the few vegeta
bles the Germans left us. The Ger
mans did not abuse us, except by
taking everything they wanted, with
out paying a single sou and by carry
ing off everything they fancied.
"I was unable to estimate the num
ber of Germans in Chateau-Thierry,
owing to the restrictions, which did
cot permit us to move *»out mush.
Everything was "verboten.'
"Many older people were feeble and
sick. The rest sought to assist them,
but could not do much through hav
ing no food. Finally we obtained a
little of the German's black bread. It
was as hard as wood.
"It was a miracle that all of us
lived through the six weeks of Ger
man control, with shells bursting ev
erywhere, buildings tumbling down
and Germans, officers and men alike,
taking our food.
"Finally, on Saturday evening, the
Germans ordered all the inbahitants
into the cathederaL We crouched
there fearing a big shell might end
us all. We even anticipated being
shot, since the Germans continually
are suspicious of us old folks. We did
not fear dfeath, but trembled for the
children.
'Early Sunday morning our soldiers
arrived. We then got the first news
of Americans—their fighting. how
they forced the Germans backward.
"When the first American soldiers
arrived, everybody that could shook
hands with the fine boys. We kissed
them, too, for are they not our grand
children also."
SHEEP MEETING
SET AUG. 6
Farmers of Vicinity to be Asked to
Raise More of Thia Stock—
Ames Man to be
Speaker.
Two hundred and twenty-live farm
ers of this vicinity will soon receive
Invitations to attend a meeting which
will be heJd August 6, to promote a
greater interest in sheep raising.
Back of this movement is the Unity
club, which has appointed a committee
E.
iRenaud -and C. W. Durrett, to take
charge of fhe plans for the meeting.
J. S. Claire, county advisor, who is
working with this committee will Is
sue the invitations August 1.
a L. Quaife of Ames college will
deliver an address at the meeting.
LA CREW.
Your scribe had the pleasure of
listening to a very entertaining ser
mon Sunday, delivered at Sharon by
Rev. Mr. Roberts.
Coretta] Georjw Reflor and wife were en
Atertained at the Becker home Sun
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In a Drama of High Society
"The Reason Why"
Elinor Glyn's Best Story
AFTERNOON
PEARL O'NEAL
Canadian Reader and Entertainer. Irish dialect, im
personations, dramatic readings.
CLYDE WILSON M'CORD
Popular inspirational lecturer.
Admission 25c and 15c.
NIGHT
PEARL O'NEAL
Community Band.
Keokuk Ladies' Glee Club.
Humorous readings and impersonations.
Capt. Richmond P. Hobson
Hero of the Merrimac. Lecture: "America and the
World War."
Admission 50c and 25c
TONIGHT'S PROGRAM
The Cecilian Chorus.
Dr. Violet.
day afternoon.
Beverly Rye and wife were gu-ists
at the Norah McGeehan home Satur
day.
Mrs. May is quite well at present,
for one of her age.
Our lady agent at the La Crew
depot is kept quite busy at the
present time.
P. C. Refior and wife were guests
at the home of his brother, George,
last week.
Miss Nannie Paisley attended
church at Sharon last Sunday.
Quite a number of men departed
for Keokuk Monday night as sol
diers for the army.
O O
LEAN
And a Big Addition
of Fun
TOMORROW, Matinee 2:00 and 4:00. Evening, 7:00, 8:15, 9:30
Alice Howell is
"OH BABY"
Brimful of Laughs
JUNE with JOHN
ELVIDGE BOWERS
"THE OLDEST LAW99
WIBO'A Grippingly Intense Drama With Pep and Punch
The Latest in News Pictures.Edward Earta, High Class Comedy
E A I E S
AT THE
TOMORROW
Afternoon, 3 p. m. Night, 8 p. m.
Who Said Efficiency?
St Paul Pioneer Press: "As effi
ciently as the postal department
run," says Postmaster General
son. Heaven save the mark! W"0
ever had the hardihod to say the po®'
tal system was efficiently run? Of
the political, red tape institution* 'j*
the world, it is the farthest from sucn
a claim. :s
News to Russia.
Kansas City Star: Russia dett««
that it has a secret treaty with ti
many regarding Poland, bat then
many might have such a treaty
•it has not told Russia about yet.