The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-25
Annual Reunion OF Hawkeyes Was
Held In California and There
Were Many
Attending.
CALL IT LITTLE IOWA
Southern California Has Been Ae-
corded This Name by Those
Who Come From This
state.

State.
| The annual reunion of Iowans at
California was big event this year,
as in former years. The following
/ is from the Los Angeles Times:
This is the week Of the greatest
! OF southern California's famous pic
mic events-the annual foregathering
of the Iowa State society.
Some person of the north Pacific
coast regions have 1--WE think largely
with envy applied the title Little
Iowa" to southern California.
"Iowa produced last year close to
$500 ,0OO, 900 worth of farm crops, not
including food animals. Had the
three large-area states of the union,
Texas, California and Montana. done
as we'll proportionately they alone
would have fed the nation-allowlng
the surplus from the other forty-nve
,, states to go across the sea for the
use of the allies.
"Iowa is not great state IN
square miles of territory, but area
for area her percentage of productive
land is so great that it is doubtful
If it's equal can be found elsewhere
on the globe. Fair France has long
been noted for intensive tlliage OF
her lands; Germany, by the use OF
science, has brought a large amount
of her not very fertile ground into
use: Spain, with a climate like can
fornia. is rated as over eighty-eight
percent productive. But the three
European nations, in spite OF thou-
sands of years of toll, have less
percentage Of their area In farms
than has Iowa. though the surface
of the Hawkeye state three-Quarters
of a century ago was but wild prairie.
"Iowa has not been given much
thought as manufacturing state.
But her position near the center vi
the country, between two large nav
gable rivers and on the edge OF the
great grazing grounds OF the west
with extensive coal deposits IN tne
southwest and tremendous water
power generation from the Mlss1s-
sippi, will place her far up IN tne
list of industrial states We expect
tne dav will come when it will take
two public parks to hold the annual
festivity of southern CALIFORNIA;
Hawkeyes." $500
Herewith are the names OF those
registering from Lee county:
From Fort Madison.
Chas. Hessig and wife.
Chas. Doerr.
Martha DOerr.
jeanette Doerr.
Ray r. Currier.
Grace Currier.
Nettie Currier.
Cate Manshiem.
Mrs Myrtle Drysdale.
Mrs. J. G. Rea.
Mrs Clara Tucker.
Mary E. Johnston.
Mrs Eula Cadwalader Rambo.
A. B. Sheppard.
Mrs. e. F. 'rholen.
Viola Adams.
Mrs. w. J. Adams.
Mrs. Amelia Atlee.
Miss Helen Ellerman.
Mrs. Chas L. Bennett.
Louisa Bennett.
Mrs. G.. w. Proctor.
Mrs. Annie NJ. Luebbus.
S. w. Barnes.
G. NJ Miller.
Mrs Susie Sibert.
F. C. Biethan
C. B. Bolchow.
Ed. Burkholder.
J. D. Hutchinson.
Grace Kennedy.
W. 3. Luebbers.
MART c. Newton.
e. G. Schwartz.
Helen Schwartz.
o. E. Newton.
VIM Berry.
MRS. Grace Sandow Mills.
Conrad Faeth.
T. c.. Mccormick.
Nellie Webb Keester.
Mrs. Clara Webb.
S. J. Mason.
Amy Warrington Henderson.
Mrs. Frank Isenberger.
Mrs. Elmer e. West.
r, A. Madison.
Katherine Doerr Madison.
Virginia B. Madison.
Phillip Madison.
Mrs. P. w. Pyle.
Ruth Pyle.
]. L. Graham.
c. L. Okell.
Mrs. c. L. Okel1.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Robb.
I. L. Gilbert.
Mrs. Theo Pyle.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Pyle.
Mrs. j. Crawford.
From Keokuk.
Mrs. Nellie Stewart Halter.
L. F. Winston.
Mrs. l.. F. Winston.
Mrs. s. B. Smith.
Mrs. Cora Bruegger ogden.
Mrs. G. L. RUBBER.
Mrs. Nettie Dunno.
Mr.. M. F. Dunno.
Mr.. C. w. Chase.
Mr.. Geo L. Rueben.
Mrs. G. W. Chase.
Mrs. NJ. v. Riley
Elberta Riley.
w. II. Palmer.
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