The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
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MEMPHIS, MO.


The flu epidemic Is subsiding in
Memphis and the county at large. DR..
Baker says that there are but four
houses under quarantine in town and
something like ten In the county.
Just week ago over twenty-five
cases were under quarantine. If our
citizens will take all precautions We
have advised from week to week, the
disease will be eradicated in our
midst.
Jas. L. Sanders sold his 200 acre
farm southwest of Memphis, Tuesday
of last week to T. H. Wilson, who
lives Just over the Iowa line. Pos
session will be given March /.
Helen Marie, eighteen years old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Hard
man. living about six miles north
west of Memphis, died Tuesday, Dsc.
| 10, 1918. of pneumonia, after about a
two weeks illness.
Ora. the 14-year-old daughter of
Fred Dieterich died at her home near
Etna, Wednesday morning, Dec. II,
Of scarlet fever.
Mrs. L. A. Reckard returned from
Kirksville last Friday night. Mrs.
Harry Allen and baby accompanied
her and will make their home in
Memphis, Mrs. Allen having sold her
shoe store in Kirksville to Meyers.
! Lawrence Bertram Ward was born
in Hancock county, Illinois, March 16,
1856. He was married to Miss Nellie
! Alexander, October 8, 1911. To this
union three children were born, two
dying in infancy and one surviving,
Lawrence Bertram Junior.
| An aeleyen-year-old daughter or
! Kinney Hotchkiss died of heart
trouble at her home, west of town,
| last Friday. Interment was made In
! the Memphis cemetery Saturday last
This child has been a sufferer for a
! long time, and every effort by the
loving hands of the parents and medi-
cal skill failed to check the ravages
of the disease.
! DR.. and Mrs. c. J. Chase are en-
joying visit with their daughter,
Gladys Delight, who is home on a
vacation from the ladies' college in
Jacksonville. Illinois. She is taking
a musical course, and will be home
until the opening Of the college again,
/ December 31st
One of the biggest deals ever pull
ed off on Scotland county dirt was
consumated Tuesday of this week,
when the w. w. Eckman farm of $50
acres, west of town, was sold to W.
! H. Barnett of Iowa Mr.. Eckmar,
feeling the worry and responsibility
Of running so large farm was too
much for him, decided some time ago
/ to dispose of his holdings, with tie
above result. The farm is highly
I improved and worth every cent of
the amount paid. Possession viii be
given March /.
! Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Wilson
( of Dayton, Ohio, Wednesday, Dec. 4,
! their first born, a boy. The grand
mother, Mrs. f. c. Reddish, is at
present in Dayton.
! The generator for the municipal
electric plant arrived in Memphis last
Monday and is being placed in posi-
ton in the power house southwest Of
( town near the button factory. The
city has practically all the poles up
and are making good progress on the
wiring throughout the residence dis
! trfct. The high tension wire is up
and we have been informed by rep
resentative of the city dads that the
new system will be running in full
blast by January /, or whereabouts
A elimination of the antagonism
caused by the lighting situation in
Memphis is anxiously awaited by the
citizens who have stumbled through
the dark streets for many months.
]. w. Drew who has been in poor
health most of the time the past ten
years, is lying very low at his home
in this city with heart trouble.
Dorothy Ruth, the nine year old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A G. Craig.
died at her home in this city, Tues
day, December 10, 1918, at about
o'clock p. M, after an Illness of about
| a week.