The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-06
BENEVOLENT UNION
APPEALS FOR AID
Annual Block Day Canvass Will be
Made October 8, and Aims of
Organization Are
Set Out.
COMMITTEES ARE NAMED
keokuk People Asked to Give to This
Worthy Local Cause and to
Give All That
They Can.
COMMITTEES ARE NAMED

Mrs. D. A. Collier, president of tn
Benevolent Union, has issued the 70
lowing letter in the interest of tn
Benevolent Union home for old ladie
and children. The annual Block da
canvass October 8, is for the SUI
port Of this worthy institution:
To the Public:
Deeply implanted in every
heart is the love of mother, home
and country. The divine fire Of
patriotism is burning brightly.
Our country calls, and many
splendid youths have answered.
To these who go to fight our
battles and to defend our homes.
I we owe deep debt of gratitude.
We are anxious to furnish
them comfort, aid and cheer and
to this end we contribute freely
to the Red Cross, the Y. M. c.
A. war fund and various other
organizations which look out for
our soldiers at home and abroad.
We do not ask you to divert
one dollar from these most
worthy causes. We do ask you
on the occasion Of our annual
canvas October Sth and 9th for
the old ladies of the Benevolent
Union home, an organization
which many of our forebears
were interested in, which houses
at the present time family of
seventeen, and which Is the only
home Of such character in this
locality, again we do ask you
70 eyi rfo1 oiI
your sympathies warrant and
your purses afford.
To age we owe our deepest
debt, our most sacred obligation.
1t may be your happy privi-
lege to tenderly care for your
mother, to guide her feet in her
declining years as she did yours
in your youth.
But these for whom we be-
speak your consideration have no
one on whom to lean. Their
needs are urgent and immediate.
Your help and cooperation for
this worthy charity will be ap-
preciated.
SUSIE SMYTHE COLLIER,
Pres. Benevolent Union Home.
The ladies named below have been
assigned to collect in the various
districts:
District No. Mrs. D. A. Collier,
Mrs. J. D. N. Dickinson, Miss Eliza
beth Steele, Mrs. McGrath, Mrs
George Collingwood Tucker, Mrs. B.
B. Hobbs, Mrs. Ida Fulton Davis,
Mrs. T. J. McGrath. Mrs. John e.
Craig, Mrs. Ralph Brownell, Miss
Ida Gordon Howell, Mrs. Earle
Wills, Mrs. Frank LeBron, Mrs. c.
w. Dickinson, Miss Besse Blood,
Mrs. Will Huiskamp. Mrs. Thomas
Gray, Mrs. George Collier, Mrs. Chas
Pond, Miss Elsie Buck, Mrs. Walter
Mas, Mrs. J. D. Rubidge, Mrs Geo.
Delsplaine.
District No. 2-Mrs. B. F. Jones,
Mrs. Albert Kiedaisch, Mrs Moseley,
Miss Horn.
District No 3-Mrs. J. B. We'll,
Mrs. C. r. Mcfarland, Miss Dorothy
Younker, Miss Mary McGrath, Miss
Bertha German, Miss Celestine Ag-
Beulah Well, Miss Bartruff, Miss
Westcott, Miss Cecile German, Miss
Ruth Mcguire. Miss Mary Kiedaisch,
Miss Lucille knight, Mrs. H. X. Dime
ow.
District No. Mrs. w. G. Blood,
Mrs. N. T. Wilcox, Mrs. S. M. Rand,
Miss McGaughey, Mrs. James Huis.
ramp, Mrs. John R. Irwin, Mrs. H.
VI. Phillips, Misses Fannie McCarty,
Virginia Dunlap and Florence Little.
District No. 5-Mrs. e. S. Baker,
Mrs. J. ]. CHAPMAN, Mrs. O. w. Sand
berg. Mrs. Louis Sterne, Mrs. c. J.
llrch, Mrs. E. R. Baker, Misses
Agnes Trimble and Mary Irwin, Miss
lula Conroy, Mrs. V. r. Mckay.
District No. 6-Mrs. G. S. Merriam,
Mrs. A. F. Burger, Miss Solom on,
Mrs. w. F. Guiss, Mrs. H. A. Bru-
lat, Mrs. Louise vandendoel, Misses
Mildred Conlee, Helen Aud, Ruby
hummer, Flora Lawrence, Hilda Gus
afson, Edna Gustafson, Josephine
Bell, Amanda Luschen and Coulee
District No. Mrs. c. F. Skirvin,
Mrs. r. H. King, Mrs. O. c. Bott,
Mrs. c. M Mcmillan, Mrs. Frank
3ulman, Mrs. A. J. Little, Mrs Harry
2arey, Mrs. Lester Salzer, Misses Ruth
huxley and Dorothy Renaud.
District No. S-Mrs. Charles Pond.
drs. G. e. Weissenburger, Mrs. o.
Iandt, Mrs Harry Culkin, Mrs. o.
J. Stanbro, Mrs. N. H. Pyle, Mrs.
I. I. Sawyer, Miss Grace Wood
District No. 9-Mrs. J. H. Cole,
Trs. Chandler Carter, Miss Elizabeth
,ollier.
District No. 10-Miss Mitchell,
Irs. d. w. Bishop, Mrs. Harry Mer-
ick, Mrs. VIM. Butler Mrs. House,
Irs. Carr, Mrs. Anna vanAusdalI,
frs. Andrew Larsen, Mrs. S., E. Han
ock, Miss Marion Wharton, Mrs.