The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-16
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the more serious. Mrs Stockton is
| now seventy-four years of age.
Mrs. Glenn Huey of St. Mary's, is
helping her mother, Mrs. Tucker, care
| for Mrs. Stockton.
! Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Layton have
purchased the property of S. w. Davis
on Buchanan street. and are moving
| into the same today.
e. P. Cutler has rented the ]. G.
Johnson property on Scofield street.
Mr.. and Mrs. XSaurice Monroe will do
| light housekeeping in rooms with Mrs.
Sarah Palmer. Harry Jones, of Mil
ton, Iowa, who has accepted a posi-
ton with the Shipton Grocery Co.,
has moved his family into the Samuel
Harvest house on Main street. Mr..
and Mrs. John Petit. of Burnside,
have rented the residence of Mrs,
| Ezekiel Walton for the school year,
and Mrs. Walton will make her home
with her daughter, Mrs. John Gard
| liner.
Rev. Carl Rodemann, Of Washing
ton, ILL.,, preached at the special mis-
sion services which were held in the
German Zion's Lutheran church in
this city last Sunday, both morning
and afternoon.
At a recent meeting OF the w. G.
ut. u, the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: Presi-
dent, Mrs. A. G. Perry; vice president,
Mrs. Clara Jackson, M. E. church;
Mrs. Bertha Seger. Presbyterian
church; Mrs. Louis Allen, Christian;
Miss Mary Davidson, Episcopalian;
Miss Eleanor Kimmell, Baptist; Mrs.
Nancy Brooks, recording secretary;
Mrs. Ella McVay, corresponding secre-
'tary; Mrs. Anna Dale, treasurer.
Mrs. John Walker and daughter,
Miss Grace, went to Burlington Tues
day morning.
Miss Helen Byers, OF Colusa, as
representative Of Hancock county,
left Tuesday for Springfield, to attend
the Domestic Science school, which is
in session a week before the state
fair opens, and also during the fair.
Mrs. We're Greenup, who has been
visiting her father, E. l.. Thomas, OF
Augusta, accompanied Prof. S. D..
Faris to Carthage Monday evening,
leaving Tuesday morning for her
home in Tama, Iowa.
Mrs. Cleve Walton and children
visited the past week with her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Fristoe, at
ST. Mary's.
Mr.. sDick Damron, of Basco, was
business visitor to the city the first
of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. H. McMinimy and
MIR. and Mrs. Harve Sights, of this
city, were Sunday visitors at the B.
NJ. Chestnut home at Weaver, Iowa,
where birthday dinner was enjoyed
by over forty members of the family.
Enroute to Carthage the party stopped
in Burlington for a brief visit with
Mrs. McMinimys sister, Mrs. Ella
Wawner.
Mrs. Harry Spangler went to La,
Harpe Friday for a visit at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. J. V. Sperry.
Mrs. Mary j. Wright and Miss
Delta Kimbrough, who have been
spending the past month with the
formers daughter, Mrs. Stella Jack
son, at Creston, Iowa, returned home
last evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar O'Dell have
purchased of Mr.. and Mrs. %. p.
McAdams the north 60 feet Of the
east half of lot 2, in block IA, OF Car
thage, located on East Main street
Monday evening as Mr.. and Mrs.
John Duffy, their daughter, Miss
Jessie, Mrs. Geo. Houtchens and Miss
Leach, were enroute home from visit
with relatives at Fountain Green IN
the Duffy car, which Miss Jessie was
driving, they met with peculiar &C
cident, but luckily without results OF
a grave nature. The rain of the late
afternoon had made the roadway
slippery and the car skidded just as
it was going onto bridge, at the bot
tom of small hill alongside the
Granvell Cannon pasture, north of
Carthage, the rear end of the car
swinging around, struck the bridge
wall with such force as to throw the
ladies in the back seat from the car
and piled them up in the ditch, Mrs.
Houtchens underneath. No one was
seriously hurt, but Mrs. Houtchens
IVES quite badly shaken up. One
broken spoke in rear wheel was the
only damage to the car.