The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16
FRESH INCREMENT
| Of TRU0PS GOES
Thirty-one Negro Soldiers from Lee
County Depart from keokuk
Today for Camp
Dodge.
RECEPTION IN CHURCH
Crowd Pays Honor to Embryo Soldiers
Who Enter Military Training
Parade This
Morning.
RECEPTION IN CHURCH

Lee county sent thirty-one OF he,
negro selectives forth to do battle
with the Huns today.
Accompanied by the Elks, old sol
diers, drum corps, the Peoples 'Insti
tute band, the Community band and
| citizens, the new soldiers marched
to the union depot at $3.50 a. M, and
boarded the Rock Island train for Des
Moines and Camp Dodge. 1t was one
| of the few negro quotas furnished by
the county during the present war
The Keokuk men who went in to
days Increment are:
Elmer Cambridge. 413 North 18th
street; De Wayne Smith, ZIG North
Moines; George Leo Pickett, 425
Fulton; Phelps c. Jones, 1923 Concert;
Joseph Scott, 211 johnson: Scott
Johnson, 1927 Concert; Hurley C.
Cook, Box %; Samuel T. Berry, 1923
Ridge; Quincy Moore, 315 Exchange;
Leonard ]. Berry, 1928 Ridge; Elmo
Berry, 1923 Ridge; Wade sCeymoor
Cook, Box 81; Oliver E. Bailey, 1925
Fulton; Charles William Alden, GOT
Morgan; Lawrence A Hinch, 1924
Franklin
Outside Of City.
The out-of-town men are Fred An
derson, Fit Madison; BENJAMIN H.
Marshall, Quincy; Hugh L. Manley,
Bethel Mo-; George Davis, New Or
leans, Louisiana; Leo g. Reader,
Cheyenne. Wyoming; Roy Dade, FIT.
Madison; Ernest A. Holt, Washington,
u. c.; George Stewart, Ft. Madison;
John H Formley, Birmingham, Ala
bama: Percy Leon Harris, Burlington,
Ia; James Washington, Peoria
Bethel Church Crowded.
Bethel A NJ. E. church was crowd
ed to the doors last night with an
audience that was deeply interested
in the part the black man is to play
in the winning of democracy, for the
world.
Every available space in the church
was covered with flags and the speak
ers paid beautiful tributes to the Stars
and Stripes and impressed upon the
boys the necessity Of planting the flag
on the kaiser's palace in Berlin.
Several Speakers.
Prayer was offered by the Rev. j.
S. Moore Alonzo Draine was chair
man.
One of the numbers on the program
was an Grafton on "Toussant La Over
trre," by Melvin Smith, small boy.
G. Lloyd Norman, acting city at
torney. laid before the new soldiers
their duty in this warfare, and praised
the mothers for their sacrifice in the
conflict The Rev. F. W. Long Of the
Congregational church, reviewed the
carly struggles of the race and the
part it had played in establishing
on the American continent.
DR.. T. H. Phillips recited the negro's
fighting record from Boston common
to Ell Caney and said the negro Is a
natural born fighter.
Proud Of Negro Fighters.
The Rev. J. Sterling Moore Of Pill
grim's Rest Baptist church, told of
the negro soldier in ancient history. |
He said: "Ten million negroes are
looking down on you for your conduct !
in this battle"
The closing address was made by /
Rev. S. B. Moore Of Bethel A. M. E. !
church. He said he was proud of the |
negro soldier and knew they would
conduct themselves like men.
The Peoples Institute band played
during the evening. At the close of
The program the soldiers were tender
I'd a reception in the lecture room by
4 committee of which Mrs. Emma
Teabeau was chairman.