The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-22
Warsaw Junior Glass Gives Banquet
In Honor of Those Who
Are Leaving High
School.
THE WARSAW NEWS
Meeting Of Business Men on Tuesday
Evening For the Purpose
Of Forming Boost
ers' Club.

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dies Aid Society of the Presbyterian
church will give an excursion to
Quincy on Tuesday. May 81, on the
steamer Keokuk. This is the first ex-
cursion of the season and If weather
permits, should draw big crowd.
Ed. Entler, architectural designer
with S. c. & S. Carter Lumber com
pany, Keokuk. was here today in the
interest of his firm.
Sam c.. Westcott of Keokuk was
Warsaw visitor today, shaking hands
with old friends.
The junior class of the high school
| entertained the graduating class at
Odd Fellows hall last evening with a
banquet and dance. The hall was
beautifully decorated with festoons of
flags in the junior class colors, green
and white, while its pennant floated
from the flagstaff on the roof. Ferns
and other potted plants aided the
scheme of decoration, while the ante
room was fitted UP with rugs, sofas
and cushioned chairs The banquet
hall was Deco ated IN festoons of
orange and purple-the colors of the
, graduating class-There were two
long tables, one for the teachers and
one for the seniors or graduating
class. At each plate was place card
and a bunch of carnations tied with
narrow satin ribbons, the colors of the
class. Candelabra bearing colored
wax candles were placed at intervals
along the center of the tables. The
whole decorative scheme of both
halls showed fine taste ON the part of
/ the committee. The occasion was a
most enjoyable ones-a red letter day
1 in school life, an exhibit of brotherly
/ love with which this life should be
/ filled, long to be remembered in after
years.
/ Harris and REYNOLDS of the Electric
Theatre, are making needed improve
ments in their premises, and enlarg-
| ing its seating capacity. They are
greeted nightly with full houses, and
on Saturday nights turn crowds away
! Their pictures are good and do not
/ shake, and these facts draw the peo-
/ pie ~
Reckless Bert, horse trainer. with
4 his bucking bronchos and vaudeville
! troupe is showing in tent on back
/ street this afternoon A band of
i eight men and women discoursed fine
4 music on the street.
\ On Tuesday evening at s. o'clock
1 the business men of Warsaw will
meet at the Office of T. F. Patterson,
/ to consider the formation of boost
err club, club pledged to work I'M
4 tiringly. and unfiinchingly for the bet
I terment of our city. The young men
are taking the initiative in this. but
they invite everybody to join hands
4 with them, in every way to advance
I the interests of the city.
| Right Rev. Edmund NJ Dunno,
bishop Of Peoria, will confirm class
of thirtyeight at $50 p. m. Sunday,
May %, at the Church of the Sacred
I Heart In the morning at the same
place, at high mass, s o'clock, the fol-
/ lowing twelve children will receive
| their first communion: VIM Werner,
Jos. Schmitz, VIM. Grunewald, Jos.
Mckee, Paul Dory, George Grunewald,
VIM. Burger, Cecilia Werner, Mary
| Mag, Mary Haynes, Bertha Satory
and Mary Schmitz.
Tuesday afternoon, May "a, the
class Of 1910, will observe class day,
at the high school, where an interest
ing program will be presented. The
public is cordially invited as well as
friends of the graduates The latter
number eighteen, three being boys.
The class is larger than usual but,
as usual, almost everywhere the girls
outnumber the boys.
There will be a silver medal con-
/ test under the auspices of the W. c..
t. U. this evening at Wythe Chris
tian church, and another one on
Thursday evening, May &c, at Rocky
| Run NJ e. church.
Decoration Day will be observed
this year with more than usual inter
est, an interesting and impressive pro-
| fran having been prepared Hon. o.
/ F. Berry of Carthage will be the
| orator of the day. and the Young
Mems Military band will furnish the
music Exercises will be held IN
Ralston park on .4th street, at p. m.
after conclusion of these exercises,
parade will be formed and proceed to
the river where flowers will be scat
tered on the river in honor of our
naval heroes who lost their lives or
sea and river in defense of this coun
try.
The parade will be composed Of
Arthur Marsh Post G. A.. R., the w
R. c. and school children, preceded
by the band, and forming at 1870 p
M at G. A. R. hall on Main street.
baccalaureate sermon to the class O.
| on next Sunday evening. Nav 90.