The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-20
CITY NEWS.

All the Red Cross workers OF the
Ladies Of Charity are requested to
meet at Sixth anu Blondeau at z
o'clock tonight in Red Cross uniform.
All Spanish War Veterans meet
at hall, corner Sth and Main St. 7:lo
tonight, for Red Cross parade. J. K.
Foulkes, Adjt.
Franklin street residents are
wondering who the persons are that
made Sunday morning hideous with
German songs and dialect as they
walked along from Sixth to Tenth
streets. Citizens were awakened
from their beds at a. m. by some
one singing Die Wacht am Rhein."
Mrs. Mabel Johnson, residing
near the foot of Bank street, is i'll in
St Joseph's hospital.
John H. Cole left Sunday for
Rochester, N. Y, to attend the ma
tional convention of the Sons OF the
American Revolution, which conven-
ed today. He is one of the five dele
gates from Iowa Resolutions draft
ed by the Keokuk chapter OF S. A. r.
to the effect that America cancel her
war loan to France will probably be
endorsed by the convention.
Bishop John c. Sage, formerly
in Keokuk, preached flower sermon
in Christ church cathedral, st. Louis,
Sunday. Excerpts from his address
appear in the ST. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat, today. The former Keokuk
church man is now bishop of Salina,
Kansas. His discourse yesterday
bore largely on the Missouri botanical
garden.
Good onion sets, 10c per pound
while they last. VIM. Schaefer, I'LL
Main St Phone $50. We deliver.
Money for patriotic purposes was
subscribed by Post H., Travellers
Protective association in meeting,
Sunday. Ten dollars was voted for
the Red Cross, $50 for thrift stamps,
and $3.50 for French war orphan.
The national convention of the Trav-
elerR Protective association will take
place in ST. Louis June 10. Dele
gate from Post H. will probably at
tend While the post will not take
part in the Red Cross parade tonight
as an organization, members will ap-
pear in several other sections of the
line, it was said.
Bicycle riders who prefer the
sidewalks to the streets, had best
beware The police have been in
stz1lcted to arrest any persons riding
bikes" on walks.
The Woman's Relief corps at its
last meeting voted to adopt French
orphan and was given Marie Bouchend
born August %, 1914, as its ward.
Women Of Lee county have been
asked to voluntarily pledge them
selves 10 buy no wheat flour until aft
er harvest. Mrs. A. F. Glazier Of Fort
10 chairman ~ ho
women's committee, council Of ma
tfonal defense asks that Lee county
women will respond one hundred per
cent to the appeal.
-Mla May Miller, infant daua:s er
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Miller, 1908
Morgan street died Sunday of pneu-
monia. She was born January 20,
1917. She is survived by her parents,
four sisters, Edith. katherine, Flor
ence, Jeanette and three brothers. Al
bert. Ralph and Edwin.
Fred Y. Gosewisch, the weather
man. is disabled and not able to take
forecasts as usual. He sprained his
back Saturday and is confined to his
home. His physician says he will be
laid UP with the injury week or ten
DAYS. V. 2. Olson, Mr. Gosewisch's
assistant. is IN charge at the weather
station during his absence.
The program that was to have
been given at the Christian church
Tuesday evening has been postponed.
The Unity club had an auction for
benefit of the Red Cross at the Hotel
Iowa. A pig brought S45, handker-
chief Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife OF
the president, donated to a recent
high school auction was sold for s25
and other articles brought snug
amounts for war work. The sale net
ted $500.
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