The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-30
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Mount Sterling Farmers Club Have
Exhibit on the Third Day of
January, With Cash as
Prizes,

Exhibit on the Third Day of
January, With Cash as
Prizes.
BONAPARTE, Dec 3O.--The Mt.
Sterling Farmers club will have
Y their annual corn show on Saturday,
January 8. Ten dollars in prizes are
offered for yellow corn, ten dollars
for white corn, five-ear exhibits.
and money divided in four parts. The
champion five ears draw one dollar
extra The best single ear not In
other exhibits draws two dollars.
A. J. Secor, county agent OF Van Bu.
rem county, will judge the corn. This
corn must have been grown within
ten miles of Mt Sterling. An election
of officers for this farmers club
will also be held at $3.50 L. j. Warren
has been president and Z. L. Kerr
secretary of the club during the past
year.
Robert Finn, OF Monroe, came last
week for visit with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Finn, and other
Bonaparte relatives.
Mrs. Harley Percival and son,
Bobby, Of Ault, Colo, are here for q
few weeks visit with relatives.
Noah Sanders and family, OF Chill
licothe, H., are spending the hoil-
days with the Robert Cummings ana
Robert Sanders families.
Mrs. Ralph Hogue and son, Nor
ris, of Eldon, have been visiting mere
at the J. o. Morris home.
o. r. Perkins and family and Joe
Cox and family were visitors at the
M. d. Cox home in Mt. Zion last
Thursday.
Miss yCorinne Coolidge, OF Dess
Moines. Miss Arlie Coolidge, OF
Prophetstown, H., and Will Coolidge,
of Detroit, are spending the hoii-
DAYS here at the Charles CoolldSe
home.
Miss Ethel Packer, a teacher IN
the Oskaloosa schools is here FOR
vacation and visit with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs w. A. Packer.
Mr.. and Mrs Fred Becker, OF chi
cago. have been enjoying holiday
vacation and visit here at the Mrs.
Anna Sherman and E. c. Smith
homes. -,
Harry Boyer, OF Arson, Mo, is VS.
itinp with his parents, Dr.. and Mrs.
T. w. Boyer.
Dr G. Walter Barr, OF Keokuk,
visited with Bonaparte friends last
Tuesday. Mr.. Barr has been IN the
newspaper game in keokuk loI
many years and is one OF the pest
writer's in the business. He pup
Iished the Keokuk Standard for sew
! eral wears and was city editor on tne
Gate City for some time. Dr. barr
. wrote all the descriptive books, etc.'
for the world famous keokuk Jam
land is greatly interested IN water
power development. -.
Mrs. Amy Whitmore is spendin 1
tbe winter in Guthrie, Okla, VIII
her daughter Mrs Scott Curtis :,
FOLLOWING is the obituary OF an olu
and highly respected Bonaparte Wo,
man who has resided in Van buren,
county for about seventy-eight years.
Mrs John w. Fitzgerald died at hel
home in Bonaparte at 11:3o p. III. on
Monday. December %. She wouio
have been eighty-one years OF age
had she lived until January Z, l9zo
On December 20, just passed, she any
her husband completed their Sixty
third wear OF married life, having
lived all these years, with the excep
tion Of about two years, IN tnis
county. Eliza Ann Story, daughte'
of william and Mary Story, was
horn In Des Moines township, var
Ruren county, Iowa, January I, 1889
She was united In marriage VIII
Iohn fitzgerald on December ~
1S5s in Vernon township, at the Ole
story home. where H. A. ChlpmaI
now resides. They went to house
keening two miles south and one-hal
mile west Of Mrs. Fitzgeralds par
ents, home. In 1860 Mr.. and MIS-
fitzgerald moved to Sullivan county
Missouri. but In a year and hal
they returned to Vernon Prairie
Twenty-four years ago last Octobe
thew moved to Bonaparte. and thl
citv has since been their home. Tw'
children were born to Mr.. and Mrs
Fitzeerald. they being ID. j. Fftzges
old Of Vernon Prairie, and Mrs
Celia Robb. of Bonaparte Mrs. Fit2
Gerald is survived by her husband
son and daughter, two grandchildren
Miss Anna Robb, of Des Moines, am
Raw c. Fitzgerald, Of Oskaloosa; ais
preat-grandson, Floyd Fitzgerald
Mrs fitzgerald also has three brotf
ers and one sister living, they bein
John story, Of Vernon Prairie, Fran
story. of Pennington, and Thoma
story. of Memphis, Mo. The sister
Mrs. Amanda Heath, Of Mountai
View MO. has been with Mrs. Fit
gerald for several months and wa
at the bedside when the END came
Mrs. Fitzgerald has been sick TO
F.! the past year and has been confine
to her bed for several months, an
had gradually grown weaker unit
E Saturday night, she became uncor
scious and did not rally. Mrs. Fit
gerald was kind and helpful neigf
Dor. loving wife and mother. He
memory will always be linked wit
home. in the making of which sh
found her greatest happiness. Fl
neral services were held at the b
naparte Baptist church last Wedne
day afternoon, Rev. j. s. Coppo
: preaching the sermon. lntermer
was in the Thompson cemeter.
southwest Of Bonaparte.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Meredith an
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