The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-19
CARTHAGE, ILL.,, JULY 10.

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| The funeral of the late John D.
Miller will be held at the Church OF
the Immaculate Conception in this
city Thursday morning at O'Clock
a. NJ, the Rev. Father O'Brien Of
ficiating. Burial at the Catholic
cemetery in Nauvoo.
Judge Miller leaves no near rela-
tives surviving him, there being a
few distant relatives In Pennsyl-
vania. He leaves surviving his wife.
The officers and members OF the
Tri-state Mutual Life Insurance com
pany of this city, are looking for
ward to Thursday, when a large dele
cation from this city expects to at
| tend the second ! annual Warren
county picnic of the association, to
be held at Roseville. There will be
! an all days program, beginning at
$500 O'Clock, with music by the band,
at 10 o'clock there will be races, and
at IL a. M there will be addresses
Thy the supreme officers Of the
lodge, VIM. H. Hartzell of this city,
being the chief speaker on the pro
gram. in the afternoon there will
be a flag drill, which promises to be
quite interesting. The Roseville
union of this insurance order, has
the distinction Of holding the largest
membership of any union in the juris-
diction, according to the size OF the
city or town, this union now having
nearly four hundred memers. while
there is a population OF only one
| thousand.
This order is growing very rapidly
throughout the state. There is a
large membership In Adams. McDon-
ough. Warren and Hancock counties.
I The Adams county annual banquet
will be held in Mendon in August,
and the first annual picnic OF the
McDonough county association will
be held in Macomb during August.
The officers Of the Carthage order
are:
s. F. Huston, president; James Nc
Carly, vice president; Linus Cruise,
secretary; Samuel Naylor, treasurer;
DR.. G. E. Humphrey. supreme medi-
cal examiner.
The board of directors is composed
of the following members: James
w. Westfall, E. A Wilcox. ]. l..
s. NJ. Parr.
The Hancock county G. w. B. NJ.
| school rally, conducted by Mrs.
Lura v. Porter, Of Carthage, who Is
the state president of the association,
will be held in West Point Thursday.
July goth. The members of the Car
thage C. w. B. NJ have received an
urgent request to be present, as also
the members OF the Young Ladies'
Missionary Circle and the Triangle
/ Girls. Many are expecting to take
advantage of this opportunity, mas
much as the train service is such
that the party can leave Carthage,
arriving in West Point in time for
/ the whole program, and returninss
home the same evening. A number
are planning to make the trap ID
cars. and altogether the Carthage
members expect to make Dig SNOW
I ing.
Mrs. Edith Califf. the president OF
the Y. l.. NJ. c.. Miss Alma Horney'
district secretary OF the G. Nv. 3. M
Mrs Nellie Gibson, and Mrs. Nellie
Berry, will appear on me program
The program is as follows:
Morning session, 10 o'clock.
Invocation, Helen Crawford.
l. Devotional service. Mrs. Sadie
Gordon.
/ welcome. Mrs Martha Wood.
= Response, Miss Emma Stinson, on
IStillweu.
| Reading of minutes.
Increasing the Membership, MIS-
Mary Holt, of Augusta.
"TIow to Get the Most out OF Our
Regular Monthly Meeting" Mrs
Hannah Flemuling, Denver.
1.-The Social Hour" Mrs. lmogene
Smith, Bowen.
Special music, Roxa Crawford.
Afternoon session
\ o,.tysn NJ po r
eker, Of Bowen.
SOLO Mrs. Lettie Switzerland, o.
Bowen.
aCur Literature and How to Use
II - Mrs. Nellie Gibson, of Carthage
"The Circle" Mrs. Edith Califf, o.
Carthage.
Heading, Member OF T. M. c.
"our Children" Miss Bessie
Wright. of LaHarpe.
"The Division Plan," Mrs. Mar
EosIe, OF LaHarpe.
Reading, Mrs. Nellie Berry, o
: Carthage.
"Our Relation to the State ant
National g. w. d. NJ" Miss Alma
: iiorney, of Carthage.
~ Sheriff Marion X Mosley ant
! deputy were called to Happy Hollow
I near CoIusa, Monday afternoon, t.
srrest one Jones, on the suppositioI
, that ne had murdered his wife. Wher
Mr.. Mosley arrived at the scene o
conflict. he found the man Jones hat
committed suicide. Jones was mar
of about sixty-six years of age; hat
been living apart from his wife, who
was a woman about forty-five years
Of age, for several months, she being
employed as a domestic at a distance
from the home of Mr.. Jones. Mr.
Jones called his wife on the tele
phone, stating that their daughter, 6
girl about fifteen years of age, was
quite i'll, and asking her to come
home. She proceeded to the home
accompanied by another lady, and as
soon as her arrival the controversy