The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-18
FARM BUREAU
ASSOCIATION
Van Buren, County Has Organized
With Much Interest Shown
in the
Idea.

| BONAPARTE, Feb. 1S.-The Farm
Bureau association of Van Buren,
county, was organized at keosauqua
on February s. Representative farm
ers from all parts OF the county were
Ipresent and the following ofilcers anu
board of directors were elected:
Officers: President, Bruce Vale,
lBonaparte; vice president, Frank
Hitchcock, Milton; treasurer, S. w.
Manning, Keosauqua; secretary, j..
Lester Therme. Keosauqua.
Directors: B. F. Ketcham, Farm
Iington: Ernest Stadler, Bonaparte;
Clinton Farnum, Harrisburg; George
Leffler, Cedar; Walter Morrel, Union;
/ George Barker, Washington; ]. w.
| Mcintosh, Henry: Bruce Cavitt, Vern-
on; Harvey Wollam, Des Moines;
| Emory Plowman, Van Buren,; Ray
Horn. Lick Creek; Frank Nelson,
Village; c.. w. Claflin, Chequest; r.
E. E. Holland, Jackson. There was
| a meeting of the association at the
lcourt house on Saturday OF last Week
at 1880 o'clock. The object OF this
association is to improve farming
conditions by organization. Employ
county agent whose duty it is TO
spend his entire time in working ill
! the interests of farming. The salary
of the county agent is paid by the
| federal government The travelling
and Office expenses. ETC., are TO De
paid by the local organization. So
licitors were appointed for each town
ship, members being signed with a
yearly payment of S. for the support
of the bureau. Bonaparte township
has seventeen members; Pennington
has twenty; Harrisburg has twenty
three. ETC. The intention is to Sc
cure 500 members if possible.
i! Erma Marie Baugher was born
February 6, 1900, and passed from
this life February 10, 1913, only foul
days after her eighteenth birthday
anniversary. She was the only child
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Baugher,
/ her father having preceded her IN
death eight days. Erma's home was
on their farm near Bonaparte, where
she was born and grew to young
womanhood, but this is the fourth
winter she has attended the Bona
parte high school and she was
member of the class which will be
graduated this spring. Erma had also
given special attention to the study
of music. developing her natural abb
| ity in that line, and affording great
pleasure to her relatives and school
mates. E1-ma was taken i'll little
over a week ago, contracting severe
| cold with the measles, and pneumonia
quickly developed. Everything with
! in human power was done to restore
! her to health, but she rapidly grew
worse until the end came at O'Clock
! Sunday morning. She was splendid
girl, and will be sadly missed, not
only by her mother, who is thus
tbereft of her entire family in a few
II oil hny n
Rosina Mailer, with whom she made
! her home while attending school.
and at whose house she died; and
her aunts and uncles and other mem
bers of her family circle will feel
only little more keenly than will her
school mates, the loss of the young
life from among them. The funeral
was held Tuesday at / O'clock from
the Mailer home. the Rev. Father
Toner being in charge. Several mem
bers OF the glee club, for which she
played accomplishments while at
tending school, sang, and six young
ladies acted as honorary pallbearers,,
while the high school attended il
body. Burial was in the Vale Gene
terry beside her father who vas laid
to rest a week ago
Marion Hornbaker AID John Saar
as members of the Van Buren, county
supervisors, departed Monday even
ing for Kansas City, Mo-, for the
purpose of purchasing a car of feed
ing COWS. On the county farm is
lot OF siiage and other feed and they
are to put the cows on the farm and
fatten them for beef.
The March term of the = district
court begins four weeks session at
Keosauqua on Monday, March 4, with
Judge Vermilion presiding. Forty
petit jurymen have been drawn and
are summoned to appear on the sec
ond Monday at 10: 80 a. m. The
grand jurors are required to appear
On the second day OF the term. The
following petit jurymen are drawn
for the term: A. B. Miller, Farming
ton; George Denning, Douds; Roscoe
Harlan, Hillsboro: C. E. ADHESION,
Hillsboro; A B. VanFleet. Milton; L.
A. McCracken, Bonaparte; Scott
Hogan, Cantril; Alvin Scott, Cantril;
Stanley Beeler, Keosauqua; r. 3.
Maxwell, Kilbourne; Leslie Parsons,
Douds; Fred Noske, Bonaparte; F. }.
Hoskin, Cantril; Earl Bowles, Farm
ington F. J. Williams, Birmingham;
Frank Plowman, Douds; W. c. Strait,
Keosauqua; Ed Cassaidy, Bonaparte;
H c. Huggins, Cantril; W. e. Tat
man, Milton; ]. G. Hargrove, Milton;
George James, Selma; Joe Simmons,
Selma; A. C. Ebert, Birmingham; w.
w. Barker, Mt. Zion; Collier Fine,
Pennington; H. C. Hill. Milton; w.
D. Moon, Milton; Charles Ayier,
birmingham; j. w. Sutton Douds,
D. l.. Snyder, Bentonsport; R. G.
Hagler, Milton; j. w. Syfert, Mt.
Zion; George Schmidt, Pennington;
E. F. Parks, Milton; Jesse Watkins,
Keosauqua; Harry Williamson, Bon
aparte; Bruce Bradford. Pennington;
Clarence Matthias, Keosauqua.
Mrs. Belle Swink, who has been
visiting in Colorado for the past sew
eral months, has returned to her
home here.
The funeral Of Mrs. E. c. Stewart,
who died at her home in Bonaparte
last Thursday, was held at her late
home Saturday afternoon at 2 O'Clock.
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