The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-24
|EOKUK BOYS
AND CHURCH
XIV About one-tifth Between Ten and
twenty Years Old Attend
Any Protestant Church
Here.
lALF ARE IN SCHOOLS
var TWO Hundred are Employed In
Larger Places, and More in
Smaller Stores, OFFICES
and Shops.

By the last census OF 1915. there
e 1926 boys in Keokuk ranging
RIM ten to twentys years OF age.
census just completed by H. w.
riller. general secretary of the keo-
nix Y. M. C. A., shows that only a
tile more than half these boys are
schools.
7Of the total number, 218 are en-
loyed in the larger business houses
mploying over half dozen male
age earners, and about 275 are en-
bowed by smaller concerns hiring
ass than six males for their work,
hitch includes many Of the activities
the boys.
OF those employed in the larger
blaces here, five are colored, and Of
lhe number attending school. twenty
i've are colored.
Few Keokuk Boys Go to Church.
Out OF 1895 boys of ten to twenty
b Keokuk, only 295 attend any pro-
(estant church, and 162 attend Cath
bic church or schools out of the
traction of the total which is of the
catholic faith.
The Catholic division is made by
Secretary Miller as follows; ST.
Peters, 1O2; st. Mary's, 60; st. Fran
bis De Sales, 25.
The attendance of these youth OF
the ten-twenty age on protestant
churches are given as follows: Trim
ty Methodist, 81; First Christian, SO;
st. Paul's Evangelical, AZ; First Bap-
list, "a; Westminster Presbyterian,
70; st. Johns Episcopal. 20; Metho-
dist Protestant, 10; Congregational.
is: Swedish Lutheran, IL; United
Presbyterian, 10; Swedish Methodist,
| s; total, 295. The. rank in this list
lis not indicative of the proportion of
piety in the youth of the different
denominations, since some Of the
churches have much larger mem
bership from which to draw youthful
attendants than some others have.
Where They Go to School.
The SIG boys out of 1,295 who are
In the public schools are distributed
is follows:
High school, 161; George Washing
ton, 1855; Carey, 81; Garfield, AZ; Lin
coin, As; Wells, 81; Jefferson, %;
florence, Is; total, 526.
The high and grammar grades
naturally have the largest number
between ten and twenty years old.
No lesson, nor moral, seems to be
disclosed by a study and comparison
Of the figures of the other schools.
Carey has more of these youth in
school than Garfield. in the first
ward, but it is larger school in
Every way. Lincoln, over in West
Keokuk, seems to be doing we'll in
keeping it's children in school. Tor
renee makes the poorest showing in
The city, apparently too many boys
pf ten to twenty being out of school
here, even if they are at work at
he early age.
Planning Extension OF Good Work.
This census of the boys of the ten
twenty age was made by the secre-
tary of the .Keokuk Y. M. c. A. in
his planning of the work of the local
association for the ensuing year.
The ages involved in his report
are those in which the Y. M c. A.
Is most interested. and it plans a
large extension of its activities next
year The Keokuk association has al
ways been in the van Of those in
America. 1t gives every returned sol
der in the three counties of Lee.
Hancock and Clark free member
ship ticket for year after he ar
fiyes here, for one thing.
Of the 1926 boys in Keokuk be-
tween ten and twenty years old. 1883
have native born parents, 191 are
american born of foreign born par
ents, and Is are foreign born them
selves, according to the last Iowa
census report, of 1915.
Respect to Officers.