The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-13
WINTER WHEAT
IN VAN BUREN,
Farmers Report Excellent Returns,
With 1928 Per BusheI
For One Carload
of No, l.,

BONAPARTE, Aug ia NUMBER
OF Van Buren, county farmers are re-
porting excellent returns from winter
wheat. E. C.. Holland and sons
Il fhreshed from their farms in the
southern part of the county a few
days ago over a carload of turkey
B red wheat The yield was thirty
i bushels per acre and the grade was
excellent. A car shipped to Chicago
graded No. 1 hard and sold for $2.2S
per bushel This also speaks well
for the thresherman, who did a good
piece of work. The farm bureau Is
locating supplies of good seed wheat.
Those having such supplies are per
mitted an advance of so cents over
the market price The loyalty OF
4 Van Buren, county farmers Is shown
by their desire to exceed the quota
OF 5000 acres for next years crop.
I The co-operators in this work in the
school districts of the county are
busy listing next years acreage and
locating the seed. These matters,
as well as the threshermen's reports,
are being handled through the farm
bureau office.
Mrs. Lawrence Case, who has been
visiting here with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Waitman Robinson, and
other relatives in this vicinity for
the past three weeks, started to her
home in Plainview, Texas, last Fri
day.
Cecil Percival visited several days
In Ottumwa recently with relatives.
Van Buren's county agent, A. j.
Secor. was one of the speakers at
the sheep producers meeting held in
Keokuk last Tuesday evening. A live
meeting was reported, with about
seventy in attendance.
During the latter part of the week
ending August 3, arrangements for
the departure of the seven men who
were sent to Jefferson Barracks from
this county were changed, and 1t be-
came necessary to send them away
at 9:35 Monday morning. This change
necessitated change in the plans
for their entertainment, and the din
ner was served at o'clock last Sun
day evening in Community hall, in
Keosauqua, by the ladies of the Chris
tian church. The menu included
fried chicken, and this, with all the
other good things prepared by these
good cooks, was greatly enjoyed by |
100 persons, despite the intense |
heat. Following the dinner the usual
entertaining and instructive program |
was given, which consisted Of music |
and speaking The Keosauqua band !
played several numbers; c. K. Miller |
sang a solo, and o. c. Petit, of Bo- |
naparte, George Lorton, of Vernon |
township, and Mr.. Miller sang a trio. |
Addresses were made by Hon. w. M. |
Walker, POSTMASTER; r. r. McBeth |
and John Wright, all of Keosauqua,
and A. G. Roberts, of Bonaparte, who !
spoke entertainingly of the work of
the Boy Scouts, he being scoutmaster
of the Bonaparte troop OF Boy
Scouts. He was accompanied by
four members of the Bonaparte
troop, they being Harry Gardner,
Paul Martin, Ralph Houser and Cal |
len Long, who entertained the audi
ence with an exhibition Of signaling.
The young men who entered Uncle
Sans service and departed for JEFF
ferson Barracks last Monday were:
Harvey F. Nichols, OF Cantril; Earl
S. Manning, of Birmingham; George
O.. Kunzman, of Douds; Jesse Foster,
of Mt. Zion; Louis j. Reddick, of
Keosauqua; J. L. Saddler, of Douds,
and John A. Chapman, of Bentons-
port
Allen Perkins, who had a stroke of
paralysis at Keokuk few days ago,
YVES brought to Bonaparte last week
by automobile. He is unable to walk
or talk so he can be understood. His
son, Charles, wife and daughter, of
Amarillo, Texas, came to Keokuk and
accompanied him here. He is at the
home of his sister, Mrs. Sarah Petrie,
and viii be taken to the home of his
son in Texas as soon as he is able
to travel
George Carnahan, Of Bonaparte,
enlisted in the motor mechanic divi-
sion of the u. S. service several days
ago and is awaiting his call He is
the fourth son Of Mr.. and Mrs. T. B.
Carnahan to enter the service, and
their daughter, Miss Ora, is a trained
nurse also in the service.
The Lawton, Okla, News of Sun
day, August 4, has the following
to say of the Fourteenth Field
ARTILLERY band, of which Bonaparte
boy is a member: The Fourteenth
Field Artillery band has become so
much part of the life of this city
by it's participation and assistance in
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