The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-06
|LAKEv|EW CAMP
| IS NOW MEMORY
Big Picnic and Celebration Ends Sue.
esssful and Happy Time
Across the
River.
SEVERAL GOOD STUNTS
Closing Program Yesterday Included
Many Novel and Interesting
Features-Campers Plan
for Next Year.

The Lakeview training camp at
Hamilton closed Tuesday with big
picnic and celebration. Nearly a
thousand people participated in the
last rites" and helped to make the
day a success.
Most of the campers guests were
Hancock county folks but there were
n lot of them who came from Iowa
and other counties in Illinois. They
mixed together so nicely that 1t was
hard to tell which people were Iowans
and which were Illinoisans.
The chief attractions at the cele.
bration were the Plymouth boys
band from Plymouth, H., the special
stunts given by the townships in Han
cock county, the setting up exercises,
first aid demonstrations, and chorus
Isinging by the girls at the camp, and
| the fine picnic dinners which every
enc brought with them.
Monticello township with Hamilton
playing the lead, and Carthage town
/, ship put on the two best stunts of the
day. The Hamilton girls presented a
/ little one-act sketch with Violet Byers
| playing the principal part. She was
small child to whom Fate had been
very kind, and had given her five wax
dolls; but they didn't come out Of the
Old Curiosity Shop. They we're quite
modern, and products from Hamilton.
There was French doll in dainty
dancing frock. who tripped the light
fantastic for her mistress when she
wound her up; the gay young darkie
in red bandana and polka dots; old
Dutch Cleanser ready for work; an
almond-eyed, kimono-clad Japanese;
and laughing Minnehaha. The little
child to whom these dolls belonged,
would wind her puppets, start them
going and then play with them.
Baby Show is Staged.
| Carthage township staged a baby
show and gave prize for the pref
test baby present. Fond parents
brought their babies to the show in
wheel-barrows and clothes baskets.
The grown up ladies in the baskets
and wheel jharrows, who acted like
babies, were lined up in row and
the judges made their decision as to
which child was the handsomest. A
| little pickaninny received the prize,
which was a box Of talcum powder.
The judges were Mrs. Leon Berry,
Mrs. McN1inny and Miss Mary Simons.
The Plymouth band which is really
considered part Of the Lakeview
camp equipme nt, did some fine work
Tuesday. They gave a concert both
in the morning and in the afternoon,
and played in between times when
ever a good looking Hancock county
girl would ask them to. The band
boys have lots of pep, and they make
things hum when they start to play.
The girls who were at camp this
last week, gave series of tableaus
featuring the Bible characters: Sarah,
Rebecca, Esther, Ruth, Naomi and
IOrfa, Mary and Martha, and Mary, the
Madonna. Real oriental costumes
were used in these tableaus.
Tells OF Work Done.
At the close of the afternoon pro-
gram, Mrs. Mary e. Aleshire, the ex-
ecutive OF the training camp, and the
pivot around which the successful ven
ture Of the summer revolved, intro
duced to the picnicers the members
Iof the camp faculty who were: Miss
Margaret Wrey, secretary; Mrs. Edna
Robbins, camp mother; Miss Rather
Inc Kermeen, nurse; Miss Won Zelle
Murph ey, music director; the pair Of
twins" Misses Florence Eutenener
and Pearl Urban, the athletic direct
ors and playground supervisors, and
Miss Elsie Hoskins, swimming teach
er.
Mrs. Aleshire gave a summary Of
the things the girls at the camp had
learned to do, and the things they had
enjoyed while at the Lakeview club
house. She also spoke OF the future
possibilities of Hancock county for
a strong county Y. W. G. A. organiza-
ton and impressed upon the peoples
minds the value to the community OF
such an organization.
The girl campers left the training
camp last evening, singing it's praises
and vowing that they would return
next year for another month of fun
and summer lessons.