The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-03
NOTED ORATOR
At MEMORIAL
keokuk's Tribute to Roosevelt is to
be Commensurate with Import
ance Of Services Next
Sunday.
ALL DETAILS ARRANGED
Committee Appointed by Mayor Loft
ton Meets and Completes Ar
engagements for Immense
Meeting Here.

The memorial services in honor Of
Theodore Roosevelt in Keokuk are
to be commensurate with the great
ness Of the man and the. character
of the city, which he visited twice
while president of the United States.
There will be an immense meeting
at the Grand theater next Sunday
afternoon at o'clock, with good vmu-
sic and an address by noted orator.
J. r. Perkins will be the orator Of
the day. He is one of the most force
full speakers ever in Iowa. albeit he
has never been heard here, because
his habitat has been Sioux City, the
Iowa town farthest removed from
Keokuk. AS the pastor of a Sioux
City church, he made reputation
big and wide; later he made some
thing of a sensation as campaign
speaker for Governor Harding in the
first race of the latter.
An Ideal Man For the Address.
For the last few years, since he
became warden of the penitentiary
at Fort Madison, he has not made
public speeches, devoting himself to
the great humanitarian work he
found there in the penal institution.
He is not only famous orator,
brought out of temporary retirement
to make the address at the big meet
ing in Keokuk next Sunday, but he is
also a warm ad,nirer of Roosevelt
and thoroughly informed about
Roosevelt, the man, the adventurer.
the author and the statesman.
81 have withdrawn largely from
public speaking" he told the Keokuk
committee when they invited him to
come here, but / have been such a
student of Roosevelt and admirer of
him, and / have heard SO much about
the appreciation keokuk shows its
guests, that l guess | will accept
yes, you may say that l will be
there"
Part of the Program.
The invocation at the big memo
rial meeting will be by Rev. M. E.
Nethercut, of Trinity Methodist
church
Mayor Lotion will preside, and
Judge William Logan will introduce
the orator of the day with some ap-
propriate remarks.
The Keokuk Concert band will
play a musical program as part OF
the music of the occasion, which Will
be rather lavish in quantity, in addl-
ton to the brilliant oratory.
It is not the intention to be lavish
with the decorations, but American
flags will be the predominating fea-
ture of the decorations OF the stage.
subcommittee on Details.
The committee appointed by May
or I of4or,N met at 4 o'clock Saturday
afternoon and organized with John
Nagel as chairman and DR.. G. Walter
Barr as secretary. Committees to
take charge oof divisions and details
of the arrangements for the memo
rial services were appointed as fol-
lows:
William G. Blood.
F'inance-Asaph Buck, Frank l..
Griffey and John Nagel.
Decoration-Mrs. Joseph j. Ayres,
Miss Florence Talbot, Mrs. d. A.
Collier and Mrs. George D. Rand.
House and music-Charles S. Abel.
J. O. Boyd was the other member
of the committee at the meeting and
gave assistance to several of the sub
committees. especially that on speak
ing.
II was resolved that the time of
the services be at 3 o'clock next Sun
day afternoon. The rest of the ar
rangements were left to the sub
committees appointed at the meet
ing