The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-02
ur.. crlmsley's Household Furniture
L No More, Perishing Yester-
day Afternoon at
O'Clock.
SHE rs VERY TALKATIvE
AGED Woman Grew Reminiscent as
Her Things were Thrown on
the Fire in North Sew
cnth Street.

There were expressions of pity and
others of relief as the mass OF old
household goods of Mrs. Louisa Grims-
Low we're pulled into the middle of the
street yesterday afternoon at 2:10.
and after oil had been poured on them,
we're sent flying skyward in smoke
and blowing ashes.
Running here and there, asking for
her attorney, now and then bursting
into tears and reckoning the firemen
or some other city official to her, Mrs.
(rjmslev spent the hour during which
the combustible portion of her goods
we're being consigned to the burning
beap on North Seventh, in waking
IN and down, sometimes forgetting to
use her crutch She would pick out
some picture of a relative from the
mass Of Junk along the side walk, an
old relic of bygone days which she
carried into the alley and returned
to every few moments. Even in the
act Of burning up her stuff, the Off
GERS could not refuse her these one or
Two little things which the old woman
wished to keep out.
Several of the prisoners from the
jail, among w'som were William Kelly
and John Pray, the latter hustler
when it comes to burning up old
household furniture, threw the mass
into the fire with the assistance of the
fremen.
As a protective step, Chief Ander-
son took the chemical engine and the
Sixth street hose reel to the vicinity
where the fire was raging in the road
way to protect adjoining property
After every piece of wood or burn
able piece of furniture had been
burnt an array of old china, tinware
stoves and the like still lined the gut
ter and were hauled away today.
Quite a number were attracted to
the place where Mrs. Grimsley's mass
Of rags. iron and wood were being
lnrown onto the half dozen huge bon
hres In the street and watched tie ma
terlal eaten up by the fire. The heat
was SO intense that one could scarce
" stand within thirty feet of it with
out feeling uncomfortably warm.
Forbad. the Burning.
Gate City reporter at the furni-
lure sacrifice Yesterday afternoon
was hesieged with a shower of ques-
IONS when Mrs. Grimsiey was APP
preached, What are they going to
10 with my things she asked, the
scribe Then she sought the city at
ofhey and told him her things must
aM De burned, all the time asking
3aefe her lawyer was and beseeching
every one present to go to a phone
anu call him up for her. Il forbid
sou' she screamed as she walked up
and down when the well oiled bed
.io'ling and other things were light
81. " was the burning of her an
squa.ed household goods she forbade
everything that could be, was
burned.
oiiers were made Mrs. Grimsley by
'eseral bystanders to purchase some
= me articles, which were probably
wanted as relics and souvenirs of the
auriliag This she refused to do how
and several things were bought
suu me money paid to Chief of Police
snesefs, WHO held the money in trust
w her until after the fire had CON
s sumed everything that could be
burned
!, trunk Of Valuable Letters.
49, MRS Grimsley was looking for two
sp'hes in particular yesterday after
una picture of her brother and a
suhR OF letters, which were valuable,
sald The trunk had been thrown
~ 'le hfe and was burned up with
sidewalk -
i, ,s' 1rlmsley claimed to have lived
= 'ne property from which she was
49,. lilly evicted for the past fifteen
to sa,s' Nothing that was burned yes
sh,uay was over fourteen years old
fin s.dted, though a glance at her an
tsa sa'ed heap OF Junk was to proclaim
fur, % De not less than a half CEN
n.r., olu- One old sewing machine in
H. .''eular, that looked like a plow in
bis.o Ways OF the stone age, of ancient
wou s, = attracted much attention and
own wv nave been readily bought If the
q ~ =, had wished to dispose of it, but
80 dld not wish to sell.
= am Not Crazy
NO sir, I'm not crazy" was state.