The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-20
STATE PRIZE TO
kE0kUk WOMAN
Mrs. Kate D. Barr, Of This City. Wins
Highest Honors in Iowa in
Sugar Saving
Contest.
FIFTEEN PRIZES GIVEN
Only One of the Winners is Unmarried
and State Champion is Very
Old House,
keeper.

| BURLINGTON, Iowa, Sept. 90
Mrs. Kate D. Barr, of Keokuk, has
been awarded first prize in the state
sugar saving contest recently an
nounced by the United States food
administration.
The awards have been made by a
committee of which Miss Alice
French of Davenport. is chairman.
The entries were SO numerous and
the suggestions made were of such
uniform excellence that the commit
tee has had difficulty in reaching a
decision among the contestants. The
plan of the food administration con-
templated the selection of a first
prize winner in the state and the
award of ten other state prizes. 1t
has been decided to name fifteen
state prize winners in addition to
Mrs. Barr.
The entire list of state prize win
ners selected by Miss French and
her committee follows:
Mrs. Kate D. Barr, Keokuk, Lee
county.
Mrs. B. F. Young, vinton, Benton
county.
Miss Ida Bradshaw, Patton, Greene
county.
Miss Edna Wilson, Sibley, Osceola
county.
Mrs. A. j. Gearhart. Council Bluffs,
Pottawattamie county.
Mrs. Mary Garmody, Davenport
Scott county.
". $. slagle. Alton, Sioux
county.
-. II. E. Jacques, Mount Plea
SAINT, Henry county.
Mrs. Mary S. H. Johnston, Hum
boldt, Humboldt county.
Mrs. J. S. Stacks, Grinnell, Powe-
sheik county.
Mrs. L. G. Heath, Brayton, Audi
bon county.
Mrs. Mabel H. Jacobs, Lamont, De-
catur county.
Mrs. E. T. Smith. Gladbrook, Tama
county.
Mrs. Mabel H. Rich, Burlington,
Des Moines county.
Mrs. Belle Mcclure, Greene, Butler
county.
Mrs. T. A. Houlihan, Harper's
Ferry, Allamakee county.
ls Active at Eighty-six.
Mrs. Kate d. Barr of keokuk, who
was awarded first prize by the COM
mittee, submitted the following sug-
gestion as to how best to save
sugar:
Seventy years of housekeeping
have taught me that many fruit pies
may be made with little soda or
corn syrup; that canned fruits need
no sugar until eaten; that preserves
may be made with corn syrup with
twice as long boiling, or canned with
little sugar to be completed in the
winter; that many good cakes may
be made with corn syrup and spices
and flavoring."
Mrs. Barr is an active housewife at
eighty-siX years of age. Many of the
older women of the state submitted
suggestions as to how to save sugar.
They had gone through the pioneer
days when sugar was real luxury
and had paid thirty-five cents pound
for it in civil war days. They learned
the lessons that necessity taught and
in these modern times when sugar
saving becomes essential they are
resourseful in invention of sugar
savers. Mrs. Mary l.. Randall, of
Ocheydan, at seventy-seven was an
other contestant.
Mrs. Barr lives at 1920 Timea
street in keOkuk where she mas re-
sided since pioneer days.
Mrs. Kate d. Barr is the mother
of DR.. G. Walter Barr and while she
has companion and housekeeper in
her home, she is still very active
and herself helped can fruit this
year, insisting on doing part of the
work in her home. She is not pio-
neer of Keokuk, as the dispatch from
Burlington says, but has been living
at her present address for couple
of years and lived in Hamilton pre-
yiously for some years. She was
born in Virginia and was real pio-
neer near Peoria, Illinois, when all
central Illinois was known by its
French designation Of la grande
prairie. She grew up at Lafayette.
Indiana, and went to Ohio when she