The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-17
WATER POWER
AT BONAPARTE
TWO Offers Made For All Power J
Dam There Could Furnish
Would Make II Paying
Venture.

BONAPARTE, Aug. 17.-Bnapart
o seems to be pretty certain of gettinl
dam in the near future There ar
two persons who have offered to cor
tract for all the power a dam woul'
furnish in excess of what is needles
weekly. That removes any elemen
of uncertainty as to whether a dan
will pay and how much il Will pa!
with the menace of uncertainty as Il
: the coal supply and all Bonaparte ex
poets to see dam here In the yer,
near future.
a couple of cars driven by strang
, ! ers collided Monday at the Jas. A
Fowler corner One car was going
south and the other east The fender
was broken off one car and the hood
/ of the other. The parties alighted and
examined the cars and then went on
their way.
Bonaparte and vicinity sent big
delegation to the Donnellson fair last
week and all report the fair one of
the best ever. A big crowd also &C
companied the Bonaparte ball team
when they played there last We'd
nesday.
T, Bird SaddIer and wife of Council
Bluffs, are visiting here at the Chas.
Saddier home and with other rela-
tiyes- Bird is fireman on the North
western and he and his wife made
the trip here in their Nash car.
This week there is to be a great
circuit sale of Hampshire hogs in this
county, the first event of the kind
that ever took place in the county.
! The sales are to be held on farms OF
members of the Hampshire Breeders
association The first will be held
| Tuesday, August II. on the Haskin's
farm near Cantril, the second will be
held Wednesday, Aug. Is on the
/, Wickfield farm three miles northeast
| of Cantril, the third will be held on the
! Shynas brothers farm at Stockport,
on Thursday, August IS. Van Buren,
county is the leading Hampshire hog
county in the United States.
Bonaparte chautauqua August q to
%. The finest program we have ever
had will be given this year.
At about $50 o'clock few even
ings ago a fire was discovered in the
wodshed at the Fowler residence in
KeosauQua. An alarm was at once
given, but the fire spread so rapidly
in short time that the Fowler garage
in front of the shed was a mass of
flames. The flames soon ignited the
garage OF r. r. McBeth, just a few
feet away. The fire department re-
sponded and had two streams Of wat
er turned on the fire in a few minutes,
but before the flames were subdued
the Fowler woodshed and garage were
destroyed, the Fowler home was bad
~ scorched and one side of the Nc
Beth garage so badly burned that 1t
had to be rebuilt, and the north side
Of the McBeth house badly blistered
Mr.. Fowler lost some tires and other
articles that were in his garage. Both
cars were. removed to places of safety
and were not damaged
Several parts OF Van Buren, county
were favored with good rains last |
week and the corn is doing remark |
ably well.
Chas. Riglef came from Mission,
Texas last week to accompany his |
wife on her return from the Mayo
hospital where she was successfully |
treated for goiter. They are enjoying
visit to the old home here which /
Mr.. Rigler says looks awfully good
to him.
Keosauqua was host few days
ago to party of prominent state
officials, members of the state exc
cutive council and the state park
commission and Others The party
was composed OF Secretary OF State
Ramsey, Treasurer Hoyt, Auditor
Shaw, Fish and Game Warden AL
berts, Joseph Kelso. member of the
park commission; Mr.. Johnson, sec
Rotary of the executive council; and
Mr.. Cramley. capitol extension engi- |,
neer. The party had been out eight
days visiting state park sites, and was
travelling in the car of the state game I
warden, in which they were living en-
route. They came by train from OF
tumwa and remained in Keosauqua [
for one day and night, and went TO !
Pennington to view state park lands
near that town The visitors were en-
tertained at dinner at the Hotel Man
ming while in Keosauqua, more than
twenty prominent citizens of Keosau- |
qua and other parts OF the county be- [
ing present In the afternoon the Of
icials and a large number of the ]
people visited the state park tract j
The object Of the official visit was to &
ascertain conditions at the park and [
zee what fmproy ements should be / /
made at once. The engineer Of the .
oarty will then plan the work. The I
dedication date of the Keosauqua I
state park will soon be announced I
4 large number OF former Van Buren, Y
people who now live in Des Moines s
re planning to attend the dedication s
IT
The Bonaparte Indians added one '
more to their long string OF victories | a
when they defeated the Fort Madison
Bear Cats at the DonneIlson fair on :
Tort Madison day. by score of 4 to
:, in one OF the hardest fought battles
# the season. Watson pitching for the
'onaparte team held FIT Madison to a
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