The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-26
LUNATIC AT
SCHOOL HOUSE.
Patient From Mt. Pleasant Gives
Teacher and Pupil an Early
Morning Scare by
Walking In.

walked away from the hospital at MI
| Pleasant last Wednesday noon. He ar
rived at the Mt. Zion school house
north OF Bonaparte about $50 last
Thursday morning and greatly fright,
ented the teacher Miss Smith, and
one pupil who had come to school
| They ran to the nearest neighbor
Adam Russell, who came to the school
house and took the demented man to
his home where he was given his
breakfast and while he was eating, Mr.
Russell telephoned to Sheriff Kinsey
at Keos auqlla, who came at once and
made arrangements FOR the mans re-
turn to the Mt. Pleasant hospital.
j. H. Wiley, superintendent OF
Greyheath orchard here, has rented
1.-The Fitzgerald property, now
, owned by Mrs. A. S. Roberts, in
northeast Bonaparte, and will move
here in the near future and will con
! tinue to take care of the big orchard
two miles north of town.
G. r. Alternately and wife and
daughter, of Roy, New Mexico, have
been visiting here with his mother.
Mrs. Alternately became i'll on the re-
turn trip and they were forced to stop
at hospital at Kirksville, Mo, for
treatment. 4e s4aa @sE
Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ Gardner, and
son, Harry, went to Fairfield last
week to attend the funeral of Mrs.
Gardeners father, George Byard. Ed
Byard of Kimberly idaho, and Mrs.
Tillie Stout, of Chicago, brother and
sister of Mrs. Gardner, accompanied
them home for a short visit.
hac RI Ia 1nf
to visit with her sister, Mrs. Priscilla
Bryant.
The annual meeting of Van Buren,
county farm bureau will be held at
KeosauQua on next Friday. January
80. A big crowd of members and
friends are expected to be present and
a very successful meeting is antici-
pated.
Cyrus Greenfield, an old, highly res
pected and long time resident of Van
Buren, county, died at his home in
Douds a few days ago
Roy Hel,sig rented quarter section
of land near Deer Trail, Colorado,
about so miles east of Denver, and
will move to that state shortly after
having his sale Mr.: Hilwig has been
troubled with asthma for some time
and hopes to be benefited by the
Colorado climate Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Helwig, who have been living in
Pennington during the past year will
soon move back to their farm.
City Assessor Henry Cresswell has
started his annual visit in Bonaparte
homes and business houses.
Miss Leila Clark, of Memphis. has
been visiting here with her sister,
Mrs. Art Cummings and family, and
with other relatives.
AS result of blood poisoning
caused by a very painful carbuncle
which had troubled him for three or
four weeks, Roscoe B. Harlan, son of
Hiram and Ann Harlan, passed away
in a Keokuk hospital on Saturday
morning Jan. IT. News of his death
came as a shock to this community as
the seriousness of his condition had
not been realized AS was his nature
he remained cheerful until the very
last.
He was born near Hillsboro, Iowa,
on December 2, 1875, he being forty,
four years. one month and Is days of
age at the time of his death. Hills
boro and vicinity has been his home
during these four and half decades,
with the exception of ten years spent
in Warsaw, Illinois.
He was married to Miss Elizabeth
Holmes on June Is, 1903. To this
union were born two sons, Earl, aged
ten years, and Gerald, aged seven
years. He is survived by both his
his wife and sons, all of
whom reside in Hillsboro. He is also
by one brother, BENJAMIN, be-
sides many near relatives and his
friends are numbered by his acquaint
lnoes. The fact of these many friends
was evidenced by the immense crowd
IN attendance at the funeral services
which were Eeld in the Christian
church at Hillsboro last Tuesday after
noon, with Rev. j. e. Bruner preach
ng the sermon. In spite of the win
er season, the floral offerings were