The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-22
| D, A. RS PRESENT
IOWA STATE FLAG
x.okuk Daughters Who Attend Con-
vention At ottumwa, Were
Members o. This Historic
Conference.
HARDING AND LOGAN
soyernor and Adjutant General Of
state Receive Fias-Daushters
Also Have Service
Flag.
HARDING AND LOGAN

The Iowa society, Daughters OF. the
American Revolution closed one OF
The most successful conferences in its
history yesterday afternoon at OF
tumwa where the nineteenth annual
conference was held Tuesday, We'd
nesday and Thursday. The meetings
we're held in the ball room of the new
Ottumwa hotel. Mrs. Dixie Cornell
Gebhart presided as state regent and
was a gracious, just and efficient pre-
siding officer. She is a beautiful wom-
an and always well gowned The con.
ference was a notable one in many
respects. One feature was the pre-
sence of Governor Harding and the
presentation to him Of the new Iowa
state flag, which was designed by the
regent, Mrs. Gebhardt Iowa was one
al three states in the union to be with
out state flag, the others being
North Dakota and Arkansas. These
flags have been presented during the
year to all regiments leaving Iowa,
by the united gift Of the Iowa S. A.
r. and D. A. R. They are carried by
the regiments when On dress parade.
Governor Harding addressed The
conference twice. Adjutant General
Logan was also speaker at the con-
ference and said that the last thing
an Iowa soldier does is to surrender
but that when Mrs. Gebhardt in few
weeks designed flag which met all
the historical and traditional require
ments in its symbolism for an Iowa
banner, he bowed his head to her in .
surrender. This was because he had
for six years been chairman OF al
committee appointed by the governor
TO design state flag and report the |
same to the legislature. He said that /
in those six years all the report he'd |
been able to make was to ask for fur !
Their extension of time. Adjutant Gen
eral Logan was in full uniform.
Hon. E. NJ. Wentworth, president !
general of the national society. Sons
Of the American Revolution, was pres
ent and addressed the conference
the historical departmen t of Iowa, who
has always given the greatest assist
ance to the Iowa Daughters in theirs
historical work, was also a speaker.
J. H. Morrell addressed the confer
ence as representative Of Ottumwa.
The Service Flag.
A service flag was unfurled bearing
on 1t stars for the boys who have gone
from D. A. R. homes in Iowa and red
crosses for the nurses. The Keokuk
delegation placed a cross for Miss
Ruth Hamill, who is in France.
Another interesting feature Of the
conference was the unwilling of tab ,
let which is to be used as marker on ,
the pioneer trail crossing Iowa. This j
particular tablet which was unveiled, is
10 De placed on boulder at Downer's {
grove. near Ottumwa. The first mark ]
er is already in place at the base OF I
me statue of Keokuk in Rand park. I
for eight or ten years the Iowa Daugh- ]
'ers nave been at work on the marking q
ol this trail. the work coming to COM ~
pietion this year. A memorial was {
read for the late Mrs. A. B. Crmmins.
VINO was a prominent Iowa d. A. r. a
IN one Of the rooms Of Hotel Ottum.
wa there was held an exhibit of his. /,
loncal relics. There were a number S
0i articles on exhibition from Keokuk e