The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-25
FIRST Meeting Was Held on Saturday
when Miss Brown Named the
standing. Bodies for
Year.
REPORT ON THE ANIMALS
League Formally Asks Commissioners
to Spend Money for Zoo for
Lights and
police.

+ ,,e first meeting Of the Civic
,aogue for the club year was held
1 - he Y. w. C. A. auditorium on Sat
,,rdav afternoon with Miss Eleanor
Brown presiding. The standing COM
mittees for the year were announced
- proaram-lMrs. w. G. Blood. Miss
Ida Gordon Howell. Mrs. James w.
Observation-Disclosures. c. F. Mcfarland.
Mice Etta Ayres, Mrs. G. NJ. Rich,
Mrs Harrie Collins. Mrs. Hugh
IIodre Mrs ID. b. Hills, Mrs. John
~ Collier, Mrs. Grace c. Brownell.
Public fountains-Miss Caroline
BALDWIN Mrs. H. o. Whitney, Mrs.
Henry w. Huiskamp.
Ward committee-Mrs. George D.
Rand general chairman: first. Mrs.
F Elder; second. Mrs. George
Ewers; third, Mrs. II. o. Whitney;
fourth. Miss inertia Mitchell; fifth.
MIS-. j. L. candy; sixth. Mrs. George
s. Merriam: seventh. Mrs. George
Loewenstein.
Flower box-Miss Caroline Bald
win. Mrs. D. A. Collier, Mrs. Geo. w.
Merriam, Mrs. Harry ]. Reeves, Miss
Elizabeth Collier, Miss Martha Bald
win. Mrs. J. ]. Ayres, Mrs. j. Albert
Kiedaisch, Mr.. F. p. Rehmeier. Mrs.
3. NJ. Lapsley, Miss Nettie Younker.
Garden contest and school gardens
Mrs. Leonard Matless, Mrs. H. O..
Whitney, Mrs. A. l. Berger, Mrs. D..
". Bishop, Mrs. w. j. Roberts. Mrs.
James B. Diver, Miss Elizabeth Col
lier. Miss May c. Westcott.
Sanitation-Mrs. j. B. We'll. Mrs. J..
]. Ayres, Miss Nettie Younker. Mrs.
Leonard Matless. Mrs. Geo. s. Mer-
Ram, Mrs. Harry J. Reeves, Miss
Anne B. Davis, Mrs. George ID. Rand,
Mrs John w. Rovane.
Park committee-Mrs. H. O. Whit
ney. Mrs. R. NJ Lapsley. Mrs. ]. F.
Elder. Mrs. James Burrows, Mrs. N.
7. Wilcox.
Trees-Mrs. Harry j. Reeves. Mrs.
J. W. Townsend. Mrs. L. A. Hamill.
Mrs. c. NJ. Rich. Mrs. William Logan,
Miss Alice Read Craig.
House-Miss May Westcott, Miss
Ignore Rich. Mrs. Hugh j.. Robert
son, Miss Margaret McGanghey.
Social--Mrs. J. J. Ayres. Mrs. D. A.
Collier, Miss Mary w. Irwin, Miss
Rachel Roberts.
Commissioners aid-Mrs. d. A..
iOUllItT, MISS Dolu WAL VA -
Eugene s. Baker. Mrs. Charles S.
Pond, Miss Elsie Buck. Mrs. James
Cameron, ST., Mrs. r. NJ. LApsley.
Delegates to Convention.
The delegates to the first district
convention Iowa Federation Of Wom-
ems clubs, to be held in Salem in
October. were elected as follows:
Misc MrS
Collier, Mrs. Harry J. Reeves. Al
ternaes are, Mrs. Geo. S. Merriam,
Mrs. J. F. Elder, Mrs. H. o. Whitney.
1t is quite probable that dozen or
more visitors will go from Keokuk to
the convention.
The reports OF committees which
have worked during the summer
were made.
Want Animals Sold.
The report of the park committee
was made by Mrs. H. O. Whitney, as
chairman, the report was supplement-
ed by other members of the COM
mittee. BY unanimous vote the
league added its plea to the petition
70 the commissioners to sell the AMI
mails now in the park. The plea is
made on two counts, for humane
reasons and for financial reasons.
from time to time articles have APP
peared in the newspapers pleading
mat the monkeys and bears be re-
,ained for the pleasure they give. 1t
mas been at least fifteen years since
lne zoo contained either bear or
= monkey There are in the park two
pu1faloes. fifteen deer and two
eagles. There is not a spear OF grass
On the plot in which they are penned.
10 move them to another place would
require the rebuilding OF fence,
winch because it must be high and
slose Is expensive. There is a barn
.or the buffaloes which would have
pc moved or rebuilt at a consid-
eiaole cost. The committee tried to