The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-22
CARTHAGE, ILL.,, OCT.

The following prizes offered by the
Civic league for the best kept yards
to the children of the grades, were
awarded by w. Z. Lyon, president of
the Commercial club, at Lincoln
school Friday:
Prizes for care Of yards-First
prize, $3.50; second prize, $3.50; third
prize, 81, honorable mention.
| First prize-First ward, William
and Kenneth Milborn; second ward.
Harley Kimbrough; third ward. Har-
old Wilson.
Second prize-First ward, Florence
Palmer; second ward, Archie Cant
well and James Cantwell; third ward.
Lloyd Gibson.
Third prize-First ward, Reed Cor
son; second ward, Billie Dunn; third
ward, Theo Morgsan.
Honorable mention--First ward,
Carol and Gladys Sweeney; second
ward, William Helfrich; third ward,
Clifford Anderson, William Dye, Cliff
ford HARRISON.
Judges-First ward, Mrs. Vollmer,
Mrs. Tetmyer, Mrs. c. S, Tyler; sec
ond ward, LaVeta Shipton. Mrs. Ed.
Cutler, Mrs. Edgar Burner; third
ward, Mrs. Ohio McMinimy, Mrs. Ed.
Booth, Mrs. John WOODBURY..
The league also offered two prizes
of a cement bird bath to the child
making the best bird house, in which
a bird has lived and reared a fam
lily. Lawrence Baxter was the only
competing child. and received one.
The second bath was presented to
the eighth grade. The bird bath will
be placed in the yard at Lincoln
school.
The following new books have been
placed in Carthage public library:
Abbot-Story of Our Army, for
Young Americans.
Saunders-Beautiful Joe.
Seibert-Bird Houses Boys Can
Build.
Burke-The White Road to Yer
dun.
verrill--south and Central Ameri-
can Trade Conditions.
Barker-Red Cross in France.
Rogers-Americas Case Against
Germany.
Tooker-John Paul Jones (for
young people.
White-El Supreme.
Bond-On Battle Front OF Engi-
neering.
Marcusson-Rebirth Of Russia.
Delnot-Lloyd George.
Montgomery-Anne House of
! Dreams.
/ Wilsie-Lydia Of the Pines.
| Tarkington-Sevent
| Carthage is one among the few of
the smaller cities of Illinois that sent
more than the FIVE percent quota to
swell the million dollar fund to pur-
chase books and establish libraries
! for soldiers.
! On the 18th inst, the local exemp-
| ton board of Hancock county posted
| the following list Of names, as being
partial list Of persons selected for
military service:
! Frank James Schlosser. Basco:
/ Walter John Giller, Warsaw; Burton
/ E. King, Plymouth; Irwin F. Nagel,
Hamilton; Cyprien Bedioun Crum,
Warsaw; Ernest Walter Athey, Ham
ilton; Lester Wibbell. Dallas City;
William H. Riley, Warsaw; Clyde
Oliver Lamb, Pontoosuc; Elbridge
Lionel Lyon. Dallas City; Fred G..
schmuck, Malard; BENJAMIN r.
Schumard, Hamilton: Roy John Har-
Ney, Ldf1dTpe, JoHu vi. bOlhlu, DENT
ley William r. Henieke, Warsaw;
Homer Hanson Williams, Hamilton:
Walter Marvin St Clair, Disco: Tjark
J. Huls. Denver: Charles H Winfield,
Bowen; Virgil Austin Rampley, West
Point; Orville M. Geddes, Fountain
Green: John Finley Shipe, Tioga;
Harold M. Carper, Dallas City;
Arthur l.. Winfield, Bowen: Carl Til
ton. Carthage. r. A.; Edward Howe
Martin. Pontoosuc; Warner J. ARM
old, Hamilton; Frank H. Clark,
Augusta: Floyd Emery Boos Basco;
Fay Frederick Christner, Carthage,
r. /; Herman Silas whitledge, SUIT
ter.
Probate Court News-Hancock
County, Illinois.
In the matter of the Charles IT.
| 1ngraham. guardian of Raymond E.,
! Roy ", Ralph f.. Theodore E., Doro.
: thy A.. and Charles l.. Lund minors.
In re the sale of real estate the lands
belonging 10 said minors being that
part OF e. Y of f. II of section 22-7-
5, each minor owning one-eighth
interest. Bond of Charles n.
Ingraham as principal and q. q.
.Starkey and H. s. Bradfield as sure.
ties, on the sale of said lands. in the
sum of $4,000 filed and approved.
DEGREES of court filed directing the