The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-10

OF VAN BUREN,
List Of Men Who Have Just Turned
Twenty-one Who Signed
Their Names
June 5.

BONAPARTE, Iowa, June 1O.-in
conpliar,ce with a law recently en-
acted by congress. Wednesday, June
was the day when ali the young men
of the county who had attained the
age of twenty-one years since June o.
1917, should register for military duty.
The plan followed was for all the men
living in a registration district to VS.
1t the office OF their local board be
tween z a m and 8 p. m. on that cay
and enroll their names. In van
Buren, county there were eignty-six
registrants. AT a<later date each one
will be sent a QUESTIONABLE and aI.er
these are filed out and returned the
men will then be classified. Below is
list of the men who registered IN
this county. in the order in which they
appeared:
Harold B. Craig, Keosauqua; George
WILDER Carnahan, Bonaparte; Jim
Barnett. Douds; Albert Dean Nc
era, ken, Bentonsport; Roger Bernard
Hornbaker, Bonaparte: Earle Hissem.
Douds; Dean Spurlock, Birmingham;
Dwight l. Beggs, Keosauqua; Harry
E. Steele, Douds; Clare E. Wiley,
Birmingham; Floyd Higoon. Farming
ton: VIII Polling, Douds; VIM. Nj.
Hoaglin, Hillsboro; Earl short, Cam
trii; Edmond Nichols, heosauqua;
Charles Robertson, Milton; Clarence
F. Hawbaker, Birmingham; Riley VOL
lam. Gautril: Guy r. Turner, Stock
port; Frank amos Grafton, Bfrm:2s-
ham: Clarence Hem, Selma: Orman
Paul Tatman, Milton; Ray Browniee,
Keosaudua; Benjamin Marion Scott,
Bonaparte; Mckinley Russell Haney,
birmingham: Lewis Walker Boley,
Stockport; Donald K. Dodds, Bona
parte: Max NJ Harlan, Stockport;
Charles Monroe Phelps, Douds: Craige
Allen Alton, Birmingham: Donald
Scott Corns, Bonaparte; Willard Ben
ton Hunter. Bcnaparte; Clarence GID
son, Douds; Ralph Mckinley John-
ston, Birmingham; Lester Jerry Nor
rison. Mt. Zion; George Bryan Rupp,
Pennington; Frank Clifford Cartnal,
Pennington; Clyde Anders- Farming
ton; Roscoe Stagers, Douds; Clyde
Allen Boyer, Bonaparte; Chester
Dorothy, Stockport; Roy Elmer Lee,
Mt. Sterling; Hazen Scotch, Mt
Sterling; Kenneth B. Franklin, Ben
tonsport: Anthony Joseph Wood
beaverton. Cantril: Craig Wesley
Price, Milton; Lloyd johnson, Stock
port: Lester McGrath, Milton; Al B.
" H.,
Knowles, Stockport; Lowell Cove.
Keosauqua: Paul Vivian jack, Mt.
Sterling: John McCarty, Pennington;
Dry Raymond Barker. Bentonsport;
Hubert Brunk Luusford, Milton; John
Fisher Wallace, Keosauqua; Howard
Jay Biggs, Douds; Burl Hubert Rich
ardson, Pennington: John II. Nc
CARNEY, Mt. Zion; VIM. Clifford Chan
nell, keosauqua; Kirk Patrick Muir
ply, Pennington; Orville Weller. Mt.
Sterling: Oscar P. Olson, Milton;
John Francis Mendenhall. Stockport;
Delbert Bruce Denning, Milton; Es-
mond Wells, Stockport; Seth Nelson,
birmingham, Clarence Eli Ewing,
+; Mt. Zion; Floyd Nelson, Douds;
French Yeaser, Cantril; John Soren-
son Dahm, Stockport: John H. Trum-
TO. Bentonsport: Clare Raymond
Stagers. Douds: Fred Gilbert Douds;
Earl Rockenbach, Cantril: VIM. Nc
Kinlev Myers, Mt Zion: Harvey Hill
Harryman, Douds; Elmer Spencer
Keosauqua: Leslie ]. Harper, Stock
port: Eberfy K. Dodds, Bentonsport
Henry Herman Kaiser, Cantril; Ralpf
Bryan jameson, Birmingham: Clar
ence Shelby Foster, Milton; VIM. B
Rhynas, Stockport; George Herman
iSchlatter, Pennington
Three residents OF Van BureI
Icounty were among the AT young mel
and women who were granted degree!
and certificates at the forty-seyentf
annual commencement at Iowa Stat
college at Ames. This years exer
cises were stamped by the war. Tut
acting French commissioner to tn
United States, Lieut.. Colonel Edouar'
de Billy, was the commencement ora
tor. Five hundred national army mel
in training at the college, formed tn
commencement procession escort. 4
score or more men who received de
grees were present in khaki; som
eighty men could not attend to re
lceive their diplomas because they ar
lin the service; ninety-eight othe
members of the 1918 class droppe'
tout without finishing, to enlist in tn
army or navy. Back Of the stage be
ing the college service flag with NOR
than 1.4OO stars, three of them golC
president r. A. Pearson returned fror
his war work in Washington to pre-
. side at the exercises. The Va
! Buren, county graduates were e.
, beaverton. Milton, two year agricu
ture. b. E. Landes, Keosauqua, ms
chanical engineering: Earl Won Blu:
: kirk. Selma, veterinary medicine.
|, Mrs. S. Cox visited at the NJ. L
Cox home in Mt. Zion last Friday.
The workmen, who have been tai
8 ing the dirt out for the cellar of tn
new bank building and Masonic ha
:: here. have completed that work an
j started a day or two ago on the foul
dation-
] Harry Burnett, who was reared
lBonaparte township, has purchased
half interest in the C. d. Dodds
Son furniture store at Keosauqu;
i. Mr.. Burnett. who is a son OF Graz
. Burnett, who resides few mile
southeast of Bonaparte. Is license
leubaIu,er and has had experience
the business at Des Moines, Waterlo
!. ana Keokuk. Mrs Burnett is we
1 knoyn here as Miss Pearl Meredit
i,a VOC a Dopular school teacher