The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-02
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Jones horse winning sass race
! The race was on a stretch OF Public
highway running ssasa ss9ra Con-
inahle.s corner, A large crowd OF
spectators wss there 60 witness the
event and ii was what you would call
race for blood, II is reported that
the owners OF the horses hsd put up
one hundred dollars each and the
winner to take the entire amount In
addition to that 1t Is further reported
that hat full Of money was e1chang-
ed BY bets from the crowd.
Hamilton and Camp Point Play Foot
ball.
A bunch Of huskies came up from
Camp Point. Illinois. Saturday noon
for game of football with the
Hamilton high school team Saturday
afternoon. The teams were pretty
evenly mated and neither one was able
to make much Roadway. Camp Point
winning on score Of seven to moth
Ing.
| Floral Society Halloween Social.
| The annual Halloween social given
| by the Montebello Floral society, CIV
en- this year at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. O. 3. Pence, was a great sue
cess. The Pence home is just outside
| the city limits on the north, and from
down town 1t is quite little walk,
so automobiles were used to trans
Fort the attendants back and forth
and upwards of hundred were pres
ent. A few Of these drove in car
riages, and few near residents walk
/ ed, but the greater part were convey
ed by auto.
/ Upon arriving at the Pence home,
the first thing of note was q ghostly
appearing being, moving around the
yard, giving directions as to where tc
first go, and the Instructions brought
you to real witch scene, where
three witches appropriately attire6
were stirring in kettle suspended ov
er fire in pit. In the most wier6
tones possible they were quoting
sentences from the witch scene from
McBeth. These artful witches were
the Mesdames Mary Hosford, George
Grant and Miss Fullmer.
From this you were ushered int
the front room Of the house wher,
close to the entrance stood statu
atory ghost, of huge proportions. He
perfect impersonation of such be
/ ing proved of interest to everyone
/ hut of fright to the children. Thi
clever piece Of work was done by Mrs
Kate Pence of Seattle, who is her,
on visit.
As soon as the entire compan,
was gathered, program was render
ed, the opening number being plane
| selection by Mrs. Leon Saugier. Fol
lowing this. Miss Goldie Brant CAV,
a very pleasing reading, entitled
The Mourning VEIL" After this cam
the address of Mr.. C. P. Dadant, tellin,
of his recent trip to Europe. HI
spoke for about an hour and ten min
utes, telling incidents and experience
such as he thought would prove of in
s terest to this company of friends
and in making his selections he mad
no mistake, for upward of hundre
people huddled around him, some sit
ting, some standing, some seated O.
the floor. but all remaining in spit
Of any slight personal discomfort, t
the end and insisting that he tel
more, but Mr.. Dadant could easily de
tect the perfume of coffee comm
through the house and feeling that hi
continuation might intefere with tn
next thing on the program and i
which all seemed quite interested, h
left off speaking, all expressing then
selves as being delighted at hearin
the interesting things that he had t
say about his three months pleasur
trip abroad
The refreshments were pumpki
pie THAT ought to be spelled with ca
ital letters, for 1t was immensely, CO
fee and doughnuts.
A free will silver offering was mad
by the attendants simply droppin
what they choose into a platter place
on stand table at one side Of til
room, this offering amounting to som
thing like thirteen dollars.
The evenings entertainment ha
been well planned and the gatherir
proved very enjoyable one.
Current Event Fall Picnic.
The Current Event club HE'D ther