The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-21
HAVE ALL
DAY MEETING
Van Buren, County Farm Bureau
Annual Session Held at keo-
sauqua Memorable
Occasion.


Occasion.
BONAPARTE. Jan. 21.-The an
nual meeting OF the Van Buren, coun-
ty farm bureau will be held in Keo-
sauqua today. and at a meeting held
In Keosauqua last Saturday it was
decided to make the annual meeting
a memorable occasion. It will be
an all-day meeting and several good
speakers who thoroughly know their
subjects, will make addresses. A
feature Of the meeting will be ban
quet at noon, which will be served
in the rest room. The directors for
each township have been requested
to ascertain how many will attend
the banquet, and it is hoped that at
least five persons from each town
ship will be present at the banquet.
Ladies as well as gentlemen will be
welcome, and there is no limit as
to the number, but those in charge
must know how many plates are to
be laid. The cost will be 60 cents
per plate. The annual election Of
officers will be held at this meet
ing.
Walter Bradford and son. Cloe,
have leased lot near the river, be-
longing to j. E. Seward, in Vernon,
and will erect box factory and To-
cate his sawmill for the winter. This
mill is now ON the Otto McCracken
farm, few miles west Of here. A
good many farmers are planning to
haul logs there and have a supply
CT lumber sawed while the mill is SO
handy.
The regular uniform county teach
ers' examination will be held at the
county superintendent office in
Keosauqua on Wednesday Thursday
and Feiday, January %, 80 and 81.
Mrs. Theo Vickers and five chill
dren, of Simpson. Ill, came last week
for visit here at the Miss Maggie
Vickers home and with other rela-
tives.
Lloyd Stevens shot and killed a
north of here, last Friday. Foxes
seem to be quite plentiful in this
vicinity, as several have been killed
lately
Mrs S. Cox went to Mt. Zion Sat
urday for visit at the home of her
son, M. D. Cox, and family.
Rev Ermil Frye, student at Har-
ward university, and family visited
his wife's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Will Hastings, last week. Mr.. Frye
returned to Cambridge, but his fami-
ly will remain for longer visit.
w A. Lippincott,i a well known
and longtime resident of Van Buren,
county, has been critically i'll at his
home in Keosacqua for several
weeks. He was proprietor of the
hotel, known as the Russell House.
al KeOsauuua for wears,
Charles j., son of Jeremia and
Elizabeth Sample, was born June Z,
1857, in Mt Sterling, and died at his
home at Sloan Springs, Ark, Janu-
airy 3, 1919, at the age of 81 years.
6 months and ~ days. He was a
resident of Mt. Sterling until 1905,
when he moved to Arkansas. He
was united in marriage to Miss
Mamie Boyd on June 10, 1918. He
united with the NJ. E. church in 1890
and was a faithful member until his
removal to Arkansas. He then be-
came a member of the United Pres
byterian church. He was regular In
his attendance when the condition OF
his health would permit He is sur
yived by his wife nephew in Cana
da. a number of cousins, and host
of friends here and at his late home
in Arkansas. Funeral services were
conducted in the M. e. church at
Mt. Sterling. Iowa, by the pastor,
Rev. s. H. Smith. Interment was in
the Harness cemetery.
Russell Madden who was agent at
the Rock Island station here for sew
eral months, has gone to Des Moines.
where he will be assigned to another
station.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Beggs, ST., OF
west Van Buren, county, have sold
their farm and will soon move to
Keosauqua to make their home, they
having purchased the w. B. Newbold
home. Mr. Newbold, who is county
attorney, will erect a new residence
on the lot across from the court
house, where his office building for
merly stood.
William Stedman and wife are
now residents of Wyoming, H.,
where he is employed. He has been
in the service and was discharged
from Camp Pike recently. He was
in the restaurant business here for
some time before enlisting in the
service.
Joe Cox, OF Croton, visited here
with his mother, Mrs. S. Cox, last
Saturday.
John Wallace, of Keosauqua, who
recently secured his discharge from
the army, is now employed here in
the Stevens cafe. Wallace and Ste
yens were in the service together at
Camp Dodge and were in the same
bakery.
Paul Miller. who Is the first Bona
parte boy to arrive home from
France, is visiting here with his
mother, Mrs. Carrie Miller, and 9TH
e. relatives. He has been with the
73rd regiment artillery and was near
Metz for some time. He for a time
was a messenger and made many
trips to the front. He enlisted at
Chicago, where he was in the employ
OF a large creamery company.
Walter Burris, who has been en-
ployed by j. A. Wilson, who re-
sides on the old Easling farm, for the