The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-12

WARSAW, ILL.,, April 12.-On Sat
urday, April IA, at 2 p. NJ, an i'm
mense U. S. flag will bo raised on 6
100 foot pole at the button factory
Wy the employees, the funds for the
purchase of the same having beel
contributed by the said employees
The Warsaw concert band will play
several national airs, and there viii
be several short addresses. White
we are on the flag subject, it was sus
gested by "Keokuk" in last evenings
Gate, that the Keokuk churches dis
play flags from their towers OF
steeples, citing the recent action OF
the members of the Baptist church OF
Evanston, Ill. who the other day
unanimously voted to hang a flag
on the church steeple and leave it
there until peace is declared. Warsaw
might do likewise; we have eight
church organizations.
In st. Louis during the civil war,
several churches, notably the First
Methodist. Rev. Cox, pastor, kept a
large bunting flag floating from the
steeple, from the opening until the
close of the war, and as fast as ono
flag was whipped to ribbons another
replaced it. Rev. Cox's sermons all
to the flag, he was a noted public
character and did much for the union
cause; his life was threatened many
times, but he bore himself bravely
and undaunted. He was much like
"our Teddy" with his fire and en-
thusiasm.
The Warsaw concert band will give
another of it's exceptional concerts,
81 ~ fhn Io{n 70 h..
hereafter announced.
A large flag on the school building,
another one on the top of the water
tower and another on high pole on
Fl. Edwards by the monument, would
show the public where Warsaw
stands; the water tower can be seen
for miles, and FIT. Edwards from the
river.
There are no public improvements
in progress in Warsaw at the present
births or but few, land they are al.
ways chronicled) no weddings, no
social events, no deaths, then how i'll
the world are you going to make
Warsaw letters readable or interest
ing? No factories are coming here
unless you go after them; see the
water power people, learn what they
have in prospect, and if any Of them
will fit Warsaw as to sites or fin
ancial aid required; if we cannot get
a peach. let US accept a gooseberry,
if it is little sour. Work on the
Roessler library foundation and the
will be completed by fall;
the Presbyterian church will be COM
pleted at same time. These two build
ings and the sanitary sewer are all Of
the Warsaw improvements in sight al
the present time for 1917. II there Is
something doing" there1l be news
In Warsaw's letters, and more Of 'em.
The following card has just been
received here and may interest many
keokuk friends Of one of the con-
tracing parties: Mr.. and Mrs. James
Lathern Bowlby request the pleasure
Of year company at the wedding re-
ception of their daughter, Katherine,
and Mr.. Frank Hahn Johnston, on
the twenty-fifth Of April, |
1917, from 1870 until 600 O'Clock,
l167 Hawthorne avenue, Portland,
Oregon. Ceremony at 4 o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. w. Cobb vel
coined little son, eight pounds, on
Friday last Good Friday.
Mrs. Margaret Perry of Keokuk, |
was a Warsaw visitor yesterday.
DIR. T. A. Hartley and Fred T. |
schildman are In Cairo as delegates
% the W. O. w. convention.
The Warsaw high school boys will
,e heard from this summer in several