The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-28
iowa PICNIC
in CALIFORNIA
List Of keokuk and Lee County Peo-
Pile Who Attended the Affair
on the Birthday Of
Washington.
WAS TENTH ANNUAL
Ia,.,,e I oee H., pon,,I,tiop Is Exnjain-
WAS TENTH ANNUAL
Iowa's Loss in Population Is Explain
ed by the Large Number From
This State Living
in the West.

LOS ANGELES, Cal. Feb. 22--[Spec-
ial Correspondence to The Gate City.l
Those census figures showing loss
of about 1000 population for the state
of Iowa in the last ten year. find their
explanation in this assemblage of
Hawkeyes They have all migrated to
Southern California" declared w. l..
Eaton, former railroad commissioner
of Iowa, in an address at the annual
Southern California Iowa association
mid-winter picnic at Eastlake park to
day.
The crowds present justified his
statement. G. H. Parsons, secretary OF
the association, estimated the attend
ance at fully equal to that of last year.
when 100000 poured into the park for
the annual merrymaking.
A feature of the occasion this year
was the rivalry of outside associations
to send in big delegations. There are
Iowa societies at Pomona, Ontario,
Riverside, Orange, Pasadena, Draw
ley and Portervilie, and each of these
was represented in large numbers.
| Pomona chartered a special train
of eight cars, bringing down more
than 500 persons and their own
musicians, the Seventh Regiment
band.
The Iowa Washington's birthday
picnic at 1Iastlake park is the big
event of the year, so far as state pic
MICS are concerned, the Hawkeyes
easily outnumbering any other state
society.
Each of the SO Iowa counties and
each of the larger cities had sepa-
rate rallying place, where old ac-
quaintances were renewed and where
persons who had not seen each other
since they lived as he,gnbors in the
old state could congregate.
The picnic was the tenth annual af-
4 fair of the kind since the association
has been thoroughly organized, al
though for about twenty-five years the
Iowans here have had a society in
semi-official existence.
i Among those registered at the Lee
county headquarters were the follow.
ing former Keokuk and other Lee
county people: C. M. Anslyn, R. L.
! Cope, Mr.. and Mrs. G. l.. Huiskamp,
| Mr. and Mrs. HI. j. Huiskamp, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. B. Maple, Mr.. and Mrs. w
Horn, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Stilson
John Stark, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry An
slyn, Will Lotus, J. r. LOTUS, G. A.
/ Pollock, DR.. and Mrs. H. X. Wilcox
| Mr.. and Mrs. x. G. Petersen, Louise
/ Hilker, Mr. and Mrs. r. S. Aanson
Major and Mrs. L. s. Tyler, c. p. Bis
bee, Mr. and Mrs Chas. Fl Mann, Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Gwinn, Mr.. and Mrs
/ NJ. r. King, Earl c. Obertop, Rev. L.
]. Adams, Mort Evans, Mrs. John G
A Mckinney. Anna and Grace Hickey, T
]. Phillips, Henry Albers, Prof. and
4 Mrs. ~ Messer, Mrs. R. G. Munsey
Miss Hazel Huiskamp, Ross G. Cline
Harry Horn, Dr. Elizabeth F. Kearney
Ella HART. Peter HART, |. T. Dyer
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Sheldon, Minnette
Il o. Morley, Norman Morley, Katherine
C. Billings, Mr.. and and Sam Hovey
Harry Bonham, Lee Bonham, Mr.. ano
MIS-. ftuSl II. oIdls, WI. anu NllS. w
Il w. Collier, Mrs. II. NJ Comstock, Mr.
and Mrs. j. ID. Feree. Mr.. and Mrs
Huverstuhl, Ed L. Corners, Oscar II
Benning, Mrs. M. A. Worley, Mr.. an(
Mrs r. S. Walker, Mr.. and Mrs. G. L
Louden, j. II. Snyder and family, Hell
en- Brennan, f NJ Gosewisch, Mrs. A
4 E. Miller, Opal Horning, Mayme Bren
mar. Herman King, Mr.. and Mrs. Lee
F. Winston, Miss Lee Doud, Mrs. Sa
die S. Richards, Mr.. and Mrs. w L
King. Miss Mita King, Mrs. John H
Craig, Mrs. NJ. c. Agnew, Miss |. 9th
ems. Mr. and Mrs. w G. Thorn, Mrs
Mahin, Mr. and Mrs Huverstuhl, c
NJ Duncan, ]. D. Hicks, Fredonia R
Gardner, Mrs. T. S. Hackett of Keo
kuk.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Conner. Nj
, and Mrs. Roy R Currier, Roy A Madi
F. Winston, Miss Lue Doud, Mrs Ga
son, Katherine Doerr, Virginia Madi
son, Winnie Pyle. Ruth Pyle, Zelm
strahan, Mr.. and Mrs F. B. Krebri
Mrs. Roy Ssrahan Loren Strahar
Theo Pyle, SIR and Mrs. p G. Half
! meister, Charles Doerr, Mr. and Mrs