The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-10

tunity to see the famous soldiers IL
4 Keokrlk, their first stop in Iowa, and
one of only six cities in which they
will leave their trains en- route from
New York to Camp Dodge.
!; No automobiles or other vehicles
| will be allowed along the line OF
march nor within two blocks OF the
Elks' club during the celebration.
Mayor Lotion will issue a procla-
nation declaring a half holiday
Tuesday forenoon for all the INDUS
tries of the city, ending after the
departure of the troop train for OF
tumwa. Oskaloosa and Camp Dodge.
The battalion will come here from
ST I,o,1is over the Burlington rail-
Only a Few Cities Honored.
After their reception here, the
soldiers will board their two special
trains which will go over the Des
Moines river division of the ROCK
Island to Camp Dodge. stopping two
hours at Ottumwa and again at
Oskaloosa for receptions similar TO
the one to be held here.
Other battalions will stop for re-
ceptions at. Dubuque, Davenport,
Waterloo and Cedar Rapids.
The entire regiment will have a
| big reception at Des Moines the next
day.
Notice to Pie Bakera
The Red Cross committee on pies
| issue the following orders to the
Keokuk women baking the pastry:
Pies must be delivered between Z
and z O'Clock the previous evening at
the basement of the Elks' club.
The boxes in which the pies will
be placed there are nine inches
/ square, and the pies must be smaller
| than this in diameter.
/ Miss Nettie Younker and Mrs. j.
B. We'll have charge at the Elks'
club basement
In charge of delivery at the rail
road station will be Miss Agnes
Trimble, Miss Anne Davis, Miss Mar
| garet Henke, and members OF the
Baby Welfare league.
| All the above directins to pie
bakers must be observed to the let
ter There is no possibility of deviat-
/ ing a hairline from them.
The List of Pretty Girls.
| The girls who will distribute the.
pies to the soldiers at the union
station just before their departure
are Miss Marie Weber, Miss Beatrice
Weissenberger, Miss Virginia Dun
lap, Mrs. Mary Bell Wilcox, Miss
Florence Talbot, Miss Coral In
| skeep, Miss Mary Hollingsworth,
Miss Corinne Weber, Miss Florence
Little. Miss Louisa Harrison, Miss
Louise Sterne, Miss Dorothy Norton,
Miss Margaret Mckenzie, Miss
Madaline Murphy, Miss Ann McKen-
zie, Miss Florence Sansone, Miss
Nellie Joyce, Miss Florence Donovan,
I Miss Nellie Rovane, Miss Inez Ro-
vane, Miss Anna Conway, Miss Mar
guerite Belts, Miss Katherine Hat
ton, Miss Emma Peterson, Miss Viola
Atterberg, Miss Helen Ludwig, Miss
Garnet Benbow, Miss Eleanor Schlot-
ter, Miss Ruth Sitter, Miss Alma
Couloy, Miss Mildred Gambrel, Miss
Hazel Sullivan, Miss Ruth Stein
metz, Miss Margaret Meyers, Miss
Ruth Bankson, Miss Hurley Fisk,
Miss Bessie , Hasper, Miss Mary
Banghart, Miss Gertrude Off.
Committee in Charge.
The arrangements for the welcom-
ing celebration were made by COM
mittee appointed by the mayor, with
Charles S. Abel as chairman and
chairman of all subcommittee.
The subcommittee of the general
committee arranged details and were
constituted as follows:
Decorations ]. Chapman, James
NJ. Fulton and ]. Albert Kfedaisch.
Parade-Lieutenant Louis a. Ro-
vane and D. j. Hemmy.
Mass meeting-C. M. Rich, l.. A.
Hamill and John A. Dunlap.
Music-T. j. Hickey and DR.. G..
Walter Barr.
Commissary- Red Cross chap
ter of Keokuk.