The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-21
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4 District Convention at Bluff Park.
Il The district convention of southern
Iowa Of the Rebekah order will be- en-
tertained by the Montrose lodge at
Bluff park in an all day session. The
Keokuk women Will put on the ami
versary degree which is degree In
stituted in celebration of the twenty
seventh anniversary of the order.
Pictures Of Ruined French Churches
! Stereopticon views illustrating the
ruined churches and cathedrals OF
France are to be shown in the Second
Presbyterian church on the evening
of October /. The collection com
prises fifty pictures taken by the bu,
reau of public information and fifty
pictures taken by DR.. Newell Dwight
Hills in his recent trip to France. The
lecture descriptive of the pictures will
be given by w. r. Coventry of Wap-
clio. Iowa. No admission will be
charged, but an opportunity will be
given to make a silver offering for
the benefit of the Red Cross.
1 Club Activities Now Due.
Club activity in Keokuk opens with
October Prominent among the study
clubs which will reassemble are the
Travel club, the Art club, and the two
reading clubs, the Wednesday and tie
! Mentor Evening clubs to which
both men and women belong, the Mon
day Music club, the Shakespeare
club and the Current Events club will
resume meeting next month. The card
| clubs, which meet twice month, the
Fortnightly, Woman's Whist league,
and the Alpha Trist are scheduled To
resume meeting within the next month.
The Civic league is the first of the
| clubs to meet, the opening meeting
is announced for the last Saturday in
! September.
Revolution will meet for the first time
October IL.
The P. e. o. chapter has already
lheld two meetings this year. The two
latter organizations, however, insist
that they are not clubs.
No announcement has been made as
yet regarding the Informal and the
Fortnightly Dancing clubs. Their
meetings usually begin early in No
vember
The Civic league will hold its first
meeting of the autumn next Satur-
day afternoon at o'clock at the Y
w. G. A. 1t is especially desired that
there shall be a large attendance.
The Year In the Monday Music Club.
The Monday Music club has arrang-
ed an outline of the years program,
but the names of those who are to
have part on the program and the
musical numbers have not yet been an
nounced.
a al will &c, CIV No. y,o$
proceeds to the war activities of the
Y. M. c. A., Y w. c. A., knights of
Columbus and the Red Cross
The regular club meetings are to be
held as heretofore in the w. C. A.
auditorium.
Because Of the objects to which the
proceeds are to be devoted the plans
of the club Ire more ambitious than
ever before.
| There are to be three evenings CIV
en- to the musical com posers Of Ameri-
ca, of France and of England. One
program will be devoted to songs Of
the allied nations.
The outline program fallows:
October 7-Opening program. Or
chestra led by Alfred Hicks. Songs,
Miss Celestine Dickey. Piano, Mr.
Fred Kirchner. Interpretative dane
| lis, NlSS VNdIlt WeUSI.
| October 21-Organ recital at Bap-
t1st church, Mr.. George Barnes and as
sisting artist.
| October enlargement extraordi-
nary Of the Russian dancers and Bar
rere Little Symphony of New York at
the Grand theatre.
November 4-Visiting artist, assist
ed by club soloists.
| November 1S-Costume program
patriotic songs of the allied nations
December 2-Recital by club mem
bers
December 16-Christmas program
given by members of the Students
auxiliary.
| January Sunday afternoon Twi.
light musicale, Christmas music by
church choirs of the city.
| January 20-AmeTican composers
| February 3-Operetta, The Egyp-
tian Princess.
| February 17-French composers
! March 3-Interdependence of rhyme
and rythm, music, poetry, the dance.
| March 17-English composers.
| March 31--Music of the Crino1ine
period or music of our grandmothers'
time.
! April 14-Opera talk prefacing the
appearance of the Sam, Carlo Opera
Co.
| April (date to be announced)-Sa
Carlo Opera company at the Grand
theatre.
! April 2S-Recognition program by
members of the Students auxiliary
and the High school orchestra. P. G.
Hayden, director.
| The third theatre attraction which
will take place in November or De-
cember has not been decided upon.
! Bridge Supper.
A bridge-supper will be given at the
Country club next Thursday evening
for which Mrs. Addison H. Rich. Mrs.
J. B. We'll and Mrs. Ada Jewett Nor
J ton will be sponsors.