The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-13
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fifteen days furlough, having arrived
Monday.
The Epworth League of the Trini-
| ty Methodist church held lawn
social at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Geimpe last evening
| Mrs. Henry Albers, Of Piqua, Ohio,
who has been visiting relatives here,
J left Tuesday for Mountain Lake
Park, Nd, and will spend two
months at this summer resort with
her sisters, Mrs. Adna R. Chatter, OF
New York City, and Mrs. w. q.
/ Clarke, of Kansas City, Mo. Mr.. AL
bers will remain here.
Miss Jeanette Worthen, of the
Davenport high school teaching
force, is home for the summer.
George T. Bot is in Chicago on
business. He will soon erect nam
moth chimney at his cooper shop In
Alexandria. 1t will replace the OLD
one and will cost $4,000.
Fred Davis and wife, OF Washing.
ton, D. c., arrived Thursday and Will
| visit relatives.
The area Of the recent fire is
| fenced in, thus saving pedestrians
from serious falls into the cellars.
Frank Baird, Of Des Moines, IS
here visiting relatives.
Several old outbuildings have been
condemned by the state fire inspec.
tor and ordered removed, they being
considered a fire menace.
Miss Estella Rife, who holds
government position, is home from
Washington, D. c., for a two months
vacation.
Philip Weber, of Breckenridge, was
very seriously burned by gasoline
explosion Friday night, July ;, While
cleaning a large tank. burning Ian
tern setting about fifteen feet away.
The night was cool and damp, which
made the accident possible, the
gas fumes lying close to the ground.
| Mr.. Weber's face was singed, his
right hand badly burned and his LETT
| leg from the knee to the ankle. The
nresence of three friends nearby was
| all that prevented him from being
| burned to death.
Booze is carried every day by the
auto load from here to Iowa, some
| times three autos in a train, all,
! or most Of it in bottles and kegs
| The promoters of the industry are
very bold about it and seemingly
very proud of the way they are beat
! ing the Iowa law. This traffic has
! been going on for months. Ottum wa
was formerly the goal so it was said.
Earl Wallace, who is visiting here
from St Paul, and is in the employ
of Clay Robinson &c Co., is expecting
cali to the colors.
Ouite a number of employees OF the
Huiskamp shoe factory have quit
The factory has for some time
been working on army shoes which
are very heavy. weighing four pounds
ner nair. thus making the work neces-
sarily slow. The hands who quit are
seeking employment elsewhere. ms
fact is regretable as Warsaw needs
all the mechanics she can get
J. p. Guthrie of Hamilton was a
Warsaw visitor today.
, The Mississippi Button company
has purchased the three lots south
of the button factory and also the
old Sharp elevator thereon from w
p Albers and will shortly begln
making chicken grit from the hun
dreds of tons of shell refuse on hand.
Harry Hopkins left for Rock Island
tonight to secure work and his broth
or Cliff. leaves Saturday morning for
the same city, with the same OBJECT
Sergeant T. J. Murphy, who has re-
turned after having been at the front
three years, will give a patr1otlc ad-
dress in Ralston park at 1851 a M
sunday. Sergeant Murphy spoke in
"a rtbage one day last week and his
lecture is reported to have been Wen
worth while