The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-26

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| Sonora township, few miles below
Nauvoo mourns the death of the first
soldier from this section, while in ser
vice In the Great Lakes training camp.
Gleason II. Hoffman succumoed TO
pneuminia and died last Sunday night
! The young man entered the camp
near Chicago last February, after re-
signing his position with the Nauvoo
Electric Light and Power Co. The re-
mains arrived in Niota on the Santa
Fe railroad from the camp in Chicago
and were taken to the home OF his
parents In Sonora last Tuesday after
noon. from where the funeral was held
| w ednesday afternoon Services were
held in the Sonora Golden Point
church in Sonora, Rev. A. L. Macarthur
officiating and the Home Guards OF
Hamilton escorted the remains to the
lakewood cemetery in Hamilton where
burial was maze. This popular and
fine young man was nearly twenty
three years of age at the time OF his
death. He leaves besides his parents,
three sisters and four, brothers to
mourn his death. After the news had
been received of the young mans
death Nauvoo's Young Ladies War
Relief club requested all the Nauvoo
church bells to toll in honor to the
memory Of Gleason HeitEan. which
pastors did for several minutes last
Monday at about one o'clock. Chester
iStratton, Lucius Schaefer, Waldemar
Kruger, VIM Guilliam,, Jr. of Nauvoo;
snow Durant and John SymEonds Of
Sonora served as pail bea- ers.
Mrs. Yves Miller. who is in Chicago
where her son is dangerously i'll with
pneumonia in the Great Lakes train
ing camp was Informed that young
man named Miller had died there
Wednesday morning and believing IL
Ito be her son, Immediately tele -,raphed
THE news of his death to relatives in
Sonora. a few miles below Nauvoo,
and the news was spread over the city.
At about I O'Clock the church and
of his memory. Another telegram was
sent to the young man horne some
time during the morning stating that
! Mr.. and Mrs Yves Millers son, Frank
| was not dead. but was slowly recov-
erinp from his serious illness. The
young man is eighteen years OF age
and has been in the services but
few months.
Mrs. Lou Argast returned to
her Nauvoo home last week from a
pleasant visit with St. Louis. and Co
llumbia, H., relatives.
| Mrs. Carl Falk, while on her way
from ST Louis to Colorado Springs
Colo. stopped off at Nauvoo last
week for a few days visit with her
mother Mrs. Louisa Bosch and sister
Mrs. Herman Berger.
| Mr.. Thomas Baxter intends making
la business "trip to Canada In a few
days
| Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Baxter re-
ceiyed a letter from their son Harry
I that he has arrived safely over there
somewhere In France.
/ Mrs Chris Steinmetz, Nauvoo cit
I tzen who has lost the sight of his eyes
several years ago was granted pen
ST IN OF $3.50 a year by the board OF
Supervisors of this county short
time ago. He was entitled to 1t and
: should have been awarded it some
time ago, but he was too modest TO
make an application for 1t.
+! The Nauvoo grape ship1iT- indus
TRY for the season Of 1913 came to an
| end last Friday evening when E. Bax.
/ teTs Sons loaded the last car with
! this Ius ctous fruit for the markets.
THE three firms engaged in shipping
grapes for Nauvoo growers sent near
Nv seventy car loads to the markets.
! The crop was a fine one, and as large
as anv season in the history of the
grower. considering the acreage and
1.-THE berries on the lunches never were
lhe.ter This believing about one
| fou1 tn and less of a crop this year Is
all bosh. There was not great
amount OF grapes left remaining for
ZINC nrrpoees. but several thousand
gallons VIII be manufactured, how
ever. This is one season in good
many that our growers make or made
little complaint over the NauVoo
grape crop.