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A breath of the world war
toadied Keokuk today,
Three of the city's fighting
•men, serving the nation in
jjFrsace have been wounded,
jtiynimaffly in the heavy Can
t'tigny fighting of May 28.
•It Notification was sent to rela
Ittves of the mem today, the fam
lly of Ben €. Baxter being in
I&med that he is seriously
fwotmcled.
Messages from Adjutant
General McOkaan to the families
^of Thomas B. Stack and Lonis
K. Swing did not state the ex
ited of Yemen's wounds.
The Stack and Ewing fam
ft«w are iseSoed to believe un
til farther word has reached
them, both boys are only
•lightly wounded
The telegram from Che war depart­
ment
to W. F. Bwtng,
March 27,1917, Bwing March 23, 1917,
qt,h Barker May 9, last year. All
iI three left Keokuk in August, last
year. Cor Camp Dodge, and were men
from Company to make up
the K8€h infantry of the rainbow
«i division.
&*•
Mrs. Amelia- Banyan. 916 Johnson
street, is a distant relative of Bark
er"R.
Gregory Recovering.
One of the first Keokuk men to
be severely wounded in France was
ElbBrt L. Gregory. w^jose sister, Mrs.
B. F. Ward, fives at 1621 Johnson
street.
Today, for the first time. Mrs.
Ward learned how her brother had
been wounded in a sharp engagement
on May 3. Bursting shrapnel, she
a letter informed her, was the
cause.
Gregory is now almost recovered
LARGE CLASS
IS CONFIRMED
Bishop Davis Officiates at Services
in St- Peter's Church Sun
j. day Priests Par
ticipate.
Tbe sacrament of confirmation vras
given to a class of ninety-nine, by
tbe THght Reverend James Davis, D.
I.,
Sunday, following high mass at
St. Peter's Catholic church Sunday at
10*30 a. the mass was celebrated
by tbe Rev. John Courtney, D. D.
The other priests present in the sanc
tuary were Very Rev- James W. Gil
leepie, V. F., the Rev. Geo. Giglinger.
I. D., and the Rev. James Dunnioo.
The names of those who received
confirmation are: Margaret Ireland,
Kathleen Faber, M. Evelyn Concan
non, Helen Ganley, Ixrretta Moran,
•i Maxtoe' Kermey, Mary M. Rovane,
'Margaret J&txrphy, Anne Hickey, Col
lettc Oook, lionise Alton, Madeline
lieadh, Helen Joyce, Catherine Boud
ewyne, Bernice Halahan, Ella Marg
are* BJwing, Margaret Tigue, Phyllis
I Iennon, Lrficille Tigue, Mary Welsh,
Jane Craig, Hllen Grogan, Evelyn
Jteete, Agnes Holdorf, Mary Hurley,
Catherine Williams. Grace O'Brien,
Alma Monks, Ifcmjthy bafeber, Mary
Monks, Mary Riley and Josephine
bafeber.
John Kenney, Edward Nelson.
W^f*""$•'
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SEE KERUK HEMES
Fighting- Men Give
Blood on Famous ®*ench
Field for Democracy's
OLD CO. MEN
B. Stack, Ben
C. Barker
and Louis E. Ewing- Saw
Gallant and Violent Ac
tum of May 28.
The Wounded Men.
THOMAS B. STACK, 224 Bank
^Street.
LjOUIS K. EWmG, tl North Eighth
BEN C. BARKER, t3^ -Worth
foarth
father at
the
loidlor gm tbte information:
"Deeply regret to inform yea
is offlciaHy reported that
Leafs K. Ewing, fnfSan-
try, was wounded In aetkwi May
2ft Will send any further infor
mation received.
j-WPCAIN, Adjutant General."
FWher In Peorfa.
Barioerbas no relatives in Keoknk
go far as known. The family former
ly lived tiero and a message
TO
ad-
dressed to the father, James Barker,
|«%y war dQtartment, at tie Fourth
street number. The text of it has
&een sent to Peoria, by the service
company. James Barker now Uvea at
213 First arenne in that city.
BBrtoer has been twice in an army
hospital, before. He was not injured
on those occasions, however. Shell
shock: was Buffered once by Barker.
it is thought, a letter of recent date
nntlmatew.
iBaxfter, Stack and Bwfng are witn
the 168t3i infantry. Stack enlisted
rj
T--
First Thought
For His Mother
Fighting tn France under the roar
of the hig guns and the infantry,
Thos. B. Stack didn't lose thought of
a lonesome little mother In Keokuk.
And so when his brother died, he
wrote to his relatives, beseeching
them to console her—to tell her that
he gjwt the other Company boys
would be home again, soon and then
he could help the mother in her de
clining years.
Mrs. Catherine Stack is the moth*
ex. Her address is given as 224 Bank
street. Thi sis what the soldier,
wounded oil May 28 in the battle at
Cantigny, wrote on Mother's Day:
"Sunday, May 12, 1918.
"Somewhere in France.
"Dear" Mother, Jennie, Jerry
and Children:
"I win drop you a few lines to
let you. know 1 am wen. Also all
the boys in the company. I am
back from the hospital and feel
ing fine. Tell Jennie "Coots" Pol
lard got a letter from home, yes
terday and be met me and said:
Tonnnle, I just got a letter from
home."
"He said: "If I thought to read
it to you it would send you. back
to the hospital, I would not let
yon see it.
I told Mm to go ahead there
was no chance of going back. So
I read it and then it was that I
learned of my brother's death.
Shocked by Mews.
"Tell Jennie the roar of the
fjtmtrwi -would not choke me as
bad as the news did. Tell her all
I do is to grin and bear it.
Poor mother is the one who must
suffer.
"Try to do year best to con
sole her. Now I only hope and
pray that she can hold up under
the strain and I know that I have
to.
"An the boys and the officers
of Company expressed their
sympathy for me when they
heard of the death. So Jennie,
try your best to get mother
to
forget it for it will be bat a
short time when I and all the
boys of Company wfll be back
borne and I can help her In her
dedlidng days and tell her at the
good times I and the zest of the
boys in Company had when we
rtmwi the Huns back to Berlin.
"Jennie I got your last letter
May 7 and you said you have not
heard from me for two months.
Well I write at least every three
weeks, and Jennie I hope mother
Is getting her money from the
government all right. I win have
to close for this time.
"PRIVATE THOS. B. STACK,
"CO. L. 168th INF. A. E. F."
and will soon be in act km sgatn.
Brettenstein May Return.
Harvey Breitenstein, another Keo
kuk soldier, was wounded in the right
arm and lost a finger in an en
gagement with the Germans in
March. Dr. H. A. Gray, a Keokuk
commissioned officer in the medical
corps, attended Breitenstein, who was
bis first Keokuk patient.
Breitenstein may be invalided
home, soon, it is thought by his rela
tives. James A. Breitenstein, 1912
Exchange street. Is his brother.
Prefers to Fight.
The soldier will never again be
able to go into the trenches. He has
been offered a place as hospital
orderly tn France, but does not care
for that work. "I would rather fight
or come home," Breitenstein writes
to his relatives.
There is no doubt now that Keokuk
men were fighting valiantly with oth
er American soldiers for the posses
sion of Cantigny in Picardy in the lat
ter part of May. The messages tell
ing of the wounds of Stack, Ewtng and
Barker strengthen the belief that the
city had its share in the brilliant cap
ture of the strongly fortified German
position.
Rae, WQfred Con cannon, Herman
A linger, Ressler Risser, Joseph Mfl
!er, George McDevitt, Jbeo Azinger,
James Kelly, Elisha Durbin, Wilfred
Riter, Raymond MiUer, Harold Mar
tin. George nnigan, William Burke
Cahill, Earl Hurley, Joseph Concan
non, John Faber, Francis Nelson,
George Yaeger, William Brassil,
Chester Kennedy. Ned Grier, Edward
Ward, Robert Hassett, Joseph La
feber, Harold Gallagher, Virgil Alton,
Edward Cahill, Grubb Grier, Joseph
O'Shea, Frederick Barthoie, Theo
dore bafeber. Patrick Grogan and L»eo
Tjafeber.
Adults were: Grace Hardesty,
Mary Blackwell. Catherine Coyle,
Mary Durbin, Sara I.«.feiber, Ada
Wright. Agnes Myers, Madeline Nel
son, Myrtle Bucklpr. 'Harriette Bus
inger, Gertrude Hayden. Mary Dono-
hue, Mary Maertens, Mary Re illy.
Julia Maertens. Hester F1n«rty, Julia
Casey, Lola Spurgeoa, Thomas Jest
er, John Tigue, Oliver Manning, John
Gomes, Joihn Bailey, Henry Thomp
son, Joseph Hayden. Edward Dona
aue, Henry Phillips and Francis Gan
ley.
CITY NEWS.
—Excursion extraordinary! steam
er Keokuk, Wednesday. June 19. Keo
kuk to Quiney. round trip 50c. Con
ducted by Christian Bbdeavor of
First Metbodist Protestant dutrch.
NOTICE.
On Tfmraday, June 13th, 1918, at
7-30 p. m„ the civil service commis
sioners of the city of Keokuk will
meet in the council chamber No. 7
North Seventh street, to examine ap
plicants for positions in the city's
service.
Applicants most have their applica
tions filed with the city clerk 24
hours before the meeting.
F. B. DORSET, JR.,
Chairman.
CITYKEWS.
—Miss May Whetstone will- «*ve a
second students' recital at Y. W. C. A.
auditorium Tuesday evening,
Jujl®
11, ai 8:16. Anyone interested invited
—Mrs. John Nixon, a resident of
Farmington. Iowa, died at 6:30 o'clock
Saturday night at the St. Joseph
hospital. She was brought to that
institution in an almost dying con
dition tb» day before, it is said. The
body was taken back to Farmington
for buriaL
George E. McNamara, formerly
of Keokuk, and who is now serving
Uncle Sam In the army, was recent
ly assigned to headquarters company
343rd field artfllery. now at Damp
Travis, Texas.
.Keokuk: coal dealers have learn
ed of a test made hi the laboratories
of the university of Illinois which
proves that Iowa coal, stored for a
year, will lose only three and a half
per cent of its heating efficiency.
This loss is as low as shown by any
other -western bituminous coal* it la
said.
NO COAL FOR
CERTAIN PLANTS
List of Essential and Norv-Essentlal
Industries is to be
Made up and Pub
lished.
[United Press leased Wire S^vice.]
WASHINGTON, June 10.—'Publica
tion of a list of industrial plants
showing which are considered es
sential or non-essential is imminent,
it was learned at tbe fuel administra
tion today. Plants on the
list" will be cited by name.
nTld„r_tood.
unden,tooa-
•white
it was
Fuel Administrator Garfield has
determined to openly announce who
shall get fuel and who shall be left
out. Coal shortage next winter is
almost inevitable. .. ..
The only course is to distribute the
shock of enforced curtailment as
early as possible.
By giving early warning they hope
to put at rert doubts in the minds of
business men as to just where they
stand on the nation's sufferance list.
This would give both business men
and labor time to readjust them
selves before the pinch of next win-
^OffletaJs of the war Industries board
THE DAILY GATE CITY AND CONSTITUTION-DEMOCRAT
Always
Something
New in
Dresses
at
Lowitz's
New June and July
models. Nets, or
gandies, tissue
ginghams, voiles,
ginghams, linens,
etc. etcr.
$3.19 to
$16.98
New Georgettes
and Crepe De
Chines, Exclusive
$I5
fo '35
Buy Now Before
Next Advance.
Savings Depositors in KEOKUK
NATIONAL BANK Present Your
Pass Book for Credit of June
Interest.
Dont Let Any Vegetables
Prom Your War Garden
Go To Waste
Use Mrs. Price's
Canning Powder
It's a Great Success
Try It
10c the Package
McGRATH BROS
Drug Co.
500 Main St
Commencement Gifts
The pleasure young peo
ple derive from their
commencement gifts jus
tifies the small cost
necessary to make them
happy.
Wrist watches, LaVal
lieres or other articles
of Jewncf for the girls.
A Gold Watch, Signet
Ring or Fountain Pen
for tiie boys. These are
only a frw of the many
sigsectlons we cju-3
make—but, jewelry is
the thing that inter th^m
most
Let us show you our
beautiful line.
RENAUD
Dependable Jeweler.
Higham's Grocery
4 per oerrt Discount on
eacb $1j00 punch a. ci
Wo Delivery. Phone 1938
Closed on Thursday afternoons
are believed to oppose announcement
of such a list. They have been -work
ing secretly to effect saving in the
fuel industry. Fuel Administrator
Garfield, Food Administrator Hoover
the
•:.-k
V?
WAIST
SALE
ALL WEEK
200 Newest
New York model
Georgette's
Just Received
*2.98
TO
*10
Other clever
Waists and
Middies, Silks,
Voiles,
Organdies
$1.00 to $3.98
All These big Serving Values on 2nd
Floor.
(Take Elevator)
Follow the crowds to L0WITZ' BIG NEW DEPARTMENT STORE where you always find the assortment.
602—604 Main Street
OLIVES
"We carry an assortment
of olives, both green and
ripe, stuffed and plain.
Green Olives, Plmiento Stuffed
Green Olives, Celery Stuffed
Green Olives, Almond Stuffed
Ripe Olives, Pimlento Staffed
Ripe Olives, Tuna Fish Stuffed
Immegart
Grocer
Phone 43 706 Main
Order Toaay ror Tomorrow
Or. M. C. VAME VENTER
PRACTICE LIMITED TO
EYE, EAR, NOSE and THROAT
Office Y. M. C. A. Bid*
Pond Apt.
HIT 10-12, 2-5.
Phone 190. Phone tS»
conclusion that a policy of frankness
must be adopted toward non-essenti&l
industry.
An important announcement from
the fuel administration is expected
today.
Buys any Cloth
Suit left in the
house, ,:
Buys any Cloth
Coat or Taffetta
or Satin Dress
in the house.
Buys any Silk
Suit in the
house.
They will cost 50 to
100 fo more next
fall.
-j rt,,
w-
SCHOUTEN'S
lO cents the Loaf
At All Grocers.
l^S frsT^
^rONDAT, JUKE 10, »18
3
RUN!
Save $1.00 on
every $2.00 you
spend now on
Men's Suits, Over
coats and all Men's
and Boys' Fornishings.
Final week of sale, dosing oat
Justice-Hoar "Cfc. clothing stock
GENUINE
BUTTER-RUT
BREAD
^TRich as Buttei^Sweetias aJJut?
EDWARD L. KRUSE
5-10-25c STORE
808 MAIN.
Specials for Tuesday and Wednesday
Ladies' summer vests, 25c values, special, each 10c
Ladies* black and white hose, fine gauze, -worth 25c today
Special, 2 pair for .... 28c
Ladies' black silk hose, special, a pair
15o bottle of fine olives, special ... 10c
18c glass of chipped beef,-special 12c
Ladies' union suits would be cheap at 50c (sir.es 34, 36, 38 only).
Special
—.—.- 29c
White Borax Napthia soap, special, a bar .... 5°
Hershey's cocoa, 25c can, speiolal l8c
White Flyer laundry soap, special ......—
Colgate's shaving soap, special, 3 bars for l°c
Sendac Uqnid Gloss, 50c size, special 39c
Jar rubbers, good and heavy, special, 3 boxes for 25°
Toothpicks, white Ivory, 5c values, special, 3 for 10°
Oranges, good and sweet, special, 3 for
Lemons, special, 3 for
WM. SEHTOSr
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