The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-01
CIVIC LEAGUE IN
BUSY MEETING
Organization at Its Session Saturday
Talked Gardens, War Work
and Other Local
Activities.
GARDEN WORK MOVING
Miss liza Mitchell, Supervisor, Has the
Work Well In Hand and School
Children Are
Busy.

The Civic league held it's regular
monthly meeting Saturday afternoon
at o'clock, the president, Mrs
Hugh j. Robertson, presiding.
Miss liza Mitchell. school garden
supervisor, made a report of the work
! she has done since returning from
AmeS, where she took a special
course in community and school gard
ening. She has given fifteen talks
in the Keokuk schools. including the
two parochial schools In the interest
| of garden enrolment, and as a result
there are already 500 children enroll.
ed, with good prospect for two hun.
dred more. The state school garden
requirement is for garden ut least
| one rod square. Some children are
not able to have at their disposal a
piece of ground that large, and such
children are enrolled in the city
school garden group. Those having
a garden plot rod square or larger
are enrolled in the state school gard
en- group. Through the generosity
of Mrs. H. o. Whitney, card index
system has been installed with cards
properly printed to keep a definite
record Of every child's garden. Ralph
B. Smith gave to the supervisors 500
cards and indexes for them, which
will provide duplicate cards, one set
for the use Of the judges and one
set for the use of the garden super
visor. The gardens are to be judged
on the following points:
General appearance points.
Cultivation, rs points.
Freedom from weeds, 10 points.
Freedom from insects, 10 points.
Effort expended by the child. 10
points.
Varieties of product, points.
Stand of product, 5 points.
Condition Of produce, points.
Rotation Of crop, 10 points
Record book and garden plan, 10
points.
Each child is to keep record
book as to the time OF planting, time
of sprouting Of seeds, time given to
daily care of the garden, etc. He is
to draw a plat OF the garden also.
Miss Mitchell reported that James
NJ. Fulton. secretary Of the Industrial
association. had six hundred parent
cards printed, to ascertain whether
ground for garden purposes. Forty
five of these have been returned with
request for more land. These
forty-five cards will be given to the
committee on land, William Brugman
and Clarence Dickey, and the requests
are being met Mrs. William Balling-
er had written Miss Mitchell letter
offering the loan of any of her vacant
lots, which are needed for war gard
ems. Her letter was also referred to
Messrs. Brugman and Dickey.
Miss Mitchell gratefully acknowl-
edged gift Of garden seeds secured
by Mayor Lotion and Edward w. Nc
Manus. in all about 1880 packages.
About half of these have been given
out to school children, but there are
still many packages which any one
wishing to plant q garden, may have
upon application to Miss Mitchell.
The Gate City has given space in its
Friday issue for reports and sug-
gestions on gardening. Regularly this
space will be used by the supervisor
for war garden news. One member
of the Civic league is to have super
vision of ten gardens and to Inspect
the gardens once every month, and
to make record Of its growth and con-
dition.
SbCou w vvSSNs
The annual clean up week will be
observed in Keokuk and inspection
day was set for Tuesday, April 80.
For some six or eight years the In
dustrial association and the Civic
league have co-Operated in the clean
up week campaign, with inspection Of
streets and alleys and public reports
made through The Gate City on May
first. Mrs. Robertson appointed the |
following ward committees to have |
charge of clean UP day reports and !
First ward-Mrs. N. T. Wilcox, Mrs. |
William A. Bridgman, Mrs. Carl A.
Weber.
Second ward-Miss Mary Tumelty, |
Mrs. G. W. HanleYA Mrs James Cam |
eron. ST., Mrs. John Rovane.
Third ward-Mrs. ]. J. Chapman,
Mrs. C. w. kellogg, Mrs. Louis Sterne, !
Mrs. Edward Kruse, Mrs. Fred Hill :
pert, Jr.
Fourth ward-Miss Louise Helwig, |
Mrs. Samuel McQuade, Mrs. Cephas
Harrison, Mrs. Harry Merrick.
Fifth ward-Mrs. Clara P. Sheldon, !
Mrs James Burrows, Mrs. Frank
Ir!ffey, Mrs. Theodore Meyling.
Sixth ward-Mrs. Geo. Merriam,
Mrs. "A. l.. Berger.
Seventh ward-Mrs. Joseph Skin
ler, Mrs Grace Wirth.
Thanked for Work. /
A letter was read from J. P. Ingle.
n which he thanked the Civic league
or its part in the sale OF thrift
stamps and war saving certificates.
md he expressed his appreciation of
he aid given by the Equal Suffrage
and the Daughters of the
American Revolution, who covered
IN equally large territory, as did the
from the Civic league.
The war work being done by the
federated clubs OF America is to es-
ablish centers for American soldiers
n France, where they may rest dur
ng the brief fur1oughs given them at
tated periods. English soldiers and
french soldiers can go to their