The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07
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The picnic for the children, being
arranged by the Holiness Home Mis-
sion and announced for July is to
be given on Monday, July 5, instead
of on Sunday.
For the consideration Of $4,000
Talms D. Faxon has decided to w. Il.
Bishop. 100 acres OF land being the
northwest quarter Of section 81. town
ship 81, range west.
Oficials Of the Water Power City
band are out soliciting donations to-
ward the purchase OF uniforms for the
new band, which expects to be out on
the street by at least the 18th Of July.
II is the intention OF the new band to
give concerts In the evening on Main
street next month.
Yesterdays issue Of The Keokuk
Truth. a little weekly paper which
has been published by George Henne-
man. announced that it had retired
from the field, the editor expecting to
go west. At the same time another
paper entitled the Keokuk Sunday
Review is announced by Burt Thomp-
son, the first issue to appear next
Sunday morning.
Coroner Fred Korschgen under
went successful operation on Sat
urday evening and will have to stay
at home for a few days as result.
A year ago in April. he had q bad
fall and since that time had been
troubled with a bruise on his left hip.
The swelling was lanced and he is ex-
pected to be out In few days and
free from the old trouble and pain.
Leon Fitzgerald and James Givan,
Of Hannibal, are sweet pair. They
were arrested for robbing the Wedler
home here last October and Fitzgerald
is now serving time for the crime, also
being under indictment at Hannibal
for robbing the post office at Ilasco.
Givan Is In trouble again, being &C
cused now OF assault with intent to
kill, the trouble arising in q saloon
fight.
"A fire department runs across
some rather peculiar things during Its
existence, but possibly the oldest
fire which has ever been fought in
Keokuk was the one Saturday even
Ing when cistern was on fire and
the department saved the cistern
from being burned up. In cleaning UP
the old Sansone building to fix 1t up
for moving picture theatre, the
trash was thrown into an old unused
cistern at the rear. Saturday night
this trash began to shoulder and the
back yard was full OF smoke. A still
alarm was turned in and the chemical
|! engine went down at -1:30 o'clock
and put the fire out, thus saving the
cistern from being burned up.
The T. PA. volume on Iowa made
a hit at the travellers convention at
Ashville, N. C. Concerning It the
Ashville Gazette says Each dele
gate to the T. p. A. convention is re-
ceiving beautiful, bound book, de-
scribing the industrial and CONNER
cial history Of Iowa. D. R. Zeigler, on
behalf OF the Iowa division, presented
the Gazette-News copy today. The
book is edited and complied by T.
Edgar Harvey, who compiled the T. p.
A. history of North Carolina last year.
which was given the delegates at Mil
waukee The book contains a short
sketch OF Iowa and the Iowa division
of the T. P. A., and sketches OF Bur-
lington, Cedar Rapids, Clinton, Coun-
ell Bluffs, Colfax, Davenport, Des
Moines, Dubuque, FIT. Dodge, Keokuk,
Marshalltown, Mason City, Newton.
Oskaloosa, Ottumwa and Waterloo.
| The book is fine souvenir of the
state"
The following from the Fort Mad
ison Gem City will be of interest here,
where the Bonicamp factory was To-
Gated for many years: John Boni-
camp, proprietor Of the Bonicamp Mfg.
Co., informed this paper Friday that
the factory would start up next Mon
day with twenty employees. 1t is the
intention to increase the working
force as soon as skilled workmen can
be secured. Mr.. Bonicamp went to
Keokuk today for the purpose Of secur-
ing some Of his old employees and have
them remove to this city. The factory
has on hand about $4,000 worth OF
leather which will be manufactured
into horse collars and other articles as
soon as the work can be accomplished
The first work to be done will be the
making of the samples to be used in
the sale of the goods to be manufac.
tured by the factory. The horse col
/ lar department will be the first to
A start up which will be followed by the
other departments of the factory as
soon as the machinery is installed and
workmen secured.