The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-29

committees all sections of the county
| will have representation. More def
mite information will be given as the
plans are formulated, but the cele-
sbratiOn 1s a sure thing.
The six-ton var tank which was
on exhibition in Keosauqua all day
Monday proved a great~drawing card
and the main streets were crowded
throughout the day by visitors from
all over Van Buren, and adjoining
counties. The band played on the
streets and the day proved a very
pleasant one to everyone. OF course,
the tank was the great center of at.
traction. 1t was u about the
streets at intervals all day. and
when standing still was always sur
rounded by a curious throng. Exhi,
billions of the ability Of these tanks
to surmount and knock down OBJ
structions and to travel over any
ground were given at 2:30 in the
afternoon and 1880 at night. The
/ place selected for these tests was the
ravine and hills back OF the court
house. The machine entered the
ravine at the lower end, travelled up
It some distance and then started up
the steep and rocky bluff apparently
has easily as Ford, that other famous
hill-climber, would run on a level
| highway. When the colored Baptist
church was reached, the machine
was turned and plunged down the
! %fifteen-foot ~embankment onto the
sidewalk, then down another bank
| onto the street and on up the hill.
To show that distractions like stone
| walls hold no terrors for this mon
! ster. the driver then started in to
demolish the heavy stone basement
walls of the old Buckner home which
was destroyed by fire, and the tank
tumbled them over as easily as ii
made Of paper.
D. r. McConnaughey, wife and
daughter, Margaret, of Chicago, were
here last week in attendance at the
funeral of Albert Earle Packer, who
died in Nevada on Sunday, April 20.
Mr.. Packer being a cousin of Mr..
McConnaughey.
AT a meeting of the Bonaparte
board of education held last Tuesday
evening, the following teachers were
| elected for the ensuing school year
Of 1890: Principal, Miss Marie
I Nehre; grammar room, Miss Clare
Smith; domestic science, Miss Ha'
zelle Coffman; intermediate room,
Miss Gladys Dick; first primary
room. Miss Margaret Easling. Miss
F.! Barrett. superintendent, and Miss
| Bessie Harris, second primary each,
er, we're not applicants for the ensu,
ing year.
Misses Helen McLane and Vergia
| Weller visited a few days last week
at the Arville Weller home neal
I! Pittsburg.
Mrs. George Phelps, OF Mapleton,
Mimi. came last week for a visit
with her daughter, Mrs. Frank 5.
! Seeds, and family.
Misses Bessie Harris, Hazelle Coff-
man and Mrs. Harry Burnett were
| Ottumwa visitors Saturday of last
, week.
T. P. Chapman and wife, Of st.
| Louis. were here last week, being
called by the death of their nephew
! Earle Packer, who died at Silver
| Peak. Nevada, and whose body was
brought to the home of his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Packer, IN Bona
! parte, where the funeral services
were held Saturday of last week.
], C. Calhoun, a prominent Van
Puren county attorney, who enlisted
and went to France a few months
apo to be engaged in Y. M. c. A.
work, has arrived in New York. Mrs
calhoun and daughter, Miss Maude'
departed for New York last week to
meet him. He expects to return to
his home in Keosauqua in a few
days.