The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-02
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s.ers Importance Were consid-
cred Ind Threshing Commit
tee Has Been APP
pointed.
bIG( SPELLING MATCH
|ro celebrate Fourth Of July With
Patriotic Meeting and
Grade School Elk
ercises.
SPELLING MATCH

BONAPARTE, July "a meeting of
| the food administration of Van Buren,
county was held in Keosauqua Thurs
/ day of last week, and many matters
| Of Importance were considered. A
! threshing committee was appointed,
consisting OF B. l.. Ketchum, of Farm
ington; S. w. Manning of Keosalrqua;
George w. Ken of Birmingham
Henry BUGGY, of Douds and H. B.
Sloan of KeosauqHa. This committee
has power to organize the county in
such way as it may think best.
A resolution was passed ordering
all ROSTERS penned up between June
1st and September Is.
A poultry and egg division was
created with the following named
members constituting the committee:
H. o. There, chairman, Pennington,
Frank Hitchcock, Milton; Ed Harrl-
son Selma; T. L. Parish, Keosauqua;
T. H. Casady Cantril; Harry Taylor,
Birmingham.
The egg subject was thoroughly
gone over and discussed. Under the
new regulations all dealers in eggs
are required to hold a government H.
cense, and all buyers of eggs should
candle every lot he buys before settle
ment is made, and shall pay for only
good edible eggs. Rejected eggs win
not be sold for human consumption.
The chairman Of the price inter
preting committee and Of the mer-
chants, We're ordered to call gen.
eral meeting of all the merchants,
restaurant and hotel keepers, to meet
with the committee in the near future.
The local board has been sending
luestionnaires during the past few
days to the men who registered on
June 9Th and this will make large
amount of work for the attorneys and
others who constitute the legal adj
vising board. Van Buren, county's
luota of the $4,000 men to be furn-
ished by the state to go to camp in
the five day period beginning July %,
has not been announced but it is ex-
pected that it will exhaust the sup
ply of class one men in the county.
A call has been issued for mastering
into service large number of colored
men from this state. Only two Van
Buren, county colored men are in class
one they being Ocie Howard and
Walter Bennings Of Keosauqua This
call is for July 10th.
Another Van Buren, county man is
to join the Y M. c. A. forces in
France. John Wright. of the mercan-
tile firm of Maltbie, Beer and Wright,
OF Keosauuua. enlisted few days ago
for position as assistant secretary.
His offer of service was Immediately
accepted and he departed Tuesday of
last week for training camp at
Geneve, on Lake Michigan near Chi
cago. where he will take months
training before being sent to France.
G. Calhoun, well known lawyer of
this county, mention of whose enlist
ment was made in this column some
time ago, will also report in New York
the 18th of this month.
Mrs. w. R. Bell of FIT. Worth, Texas
Is visiting here at the home of her
mother, Mrs. Sarah Christy.
Lieutenant Parnen, an instructor of
the soldiers at Camp Dodge. accom-
PANIED Ralph Elliott. OF Des Moines
here Saturday for visit at the w. H.
Roberts home.
Lieutenant Robert Leff1er and wife
visited with sBonaparte relatives Fri
day evening. He and wife also visited
with his brother, George Leffler and
family, near Stockport. He came
from Ames, where he visited for
short time while on furlouSh from
Fl. Benjamin Harrison, where he
was sent from the officers train
Ing school and where he has been
stationed for several months.
Mrs, l. B. Day, who formerly lived
In this vicinity, but who has been liv-
Ing in Waterloo for some time visited