The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-20
CITY NEWS

Boosters day tomorrow. Don't /
fail to be present.
New supply OF the celebrated |
Bear Brand yarn. Central Store.
Boost At Hubinger park tomor- |
row. Kewanee. the old enemy of |
| Keokuk will be in the city to start /
series
James NJ. Fulton has quit rail- |
reading for a time at least and has |
accepted a position at 1913 Franklin |
street, where he win for some time |
be fully engaged in looking after |
new baby girl that arrived this morn |
ing, finding papa and mama at home.
Jimmie is reported to be we'll and
the baby strong and heSrty young
ster.
| "A Carthage paper says: A stalk
OF corn Is now on exhibition at the
Dime Savings Bank which is fair
Specimen Of Hancock county corn. It
was raised on the VIM. Kunkel farm
north Of this city by John Smith. It
Is Is feet inches tall, is six feet to
the first ear. there being two large
carr on the stalk. This corn Is the
Yellow Dent variety and il one Of the
first crop Of corn grown on this soil.
1 The tent meetings In Melrcse are
| starting out well. The attendance is
increasing with every evening. A
most powerful and heartsearching
sermon was preached Wednesday
night by the evangelist from the
text, Thou are Weighed In the Bal
ances and Found Wanting" The
signs indicate that long expected
revival Is coming. We urge all chris
tians In the community to pray and
work for its promotion. Plan to be
present at every meeting. Come and
bring your friends. Hear that your
soul may live.
yesterday attracted large audience
and the E1ks and their friends enjoy
II the event and put In a pleasant
afternoon. The clever work of Mr.
Tenme who looked after the. roasting
part of the program was a feature
The camp will Aose within the next
, few days. having continued for sever
al weeks and gave an outing and en-
joyment to many Of the members.
: These annual Camp II stunts are
growing in popularity each year.
--Aledo Times-Record: The edi-
tors pencil hand grows weary, for to
chronicle the postofice robberies that
have been pulled OF in the Military
Tract during the past two years
would be but repetition of the cal
endar, and the task would smack OF
Julius Caesar. To write the last chap
ter of the story, we would say that
! the postoface at Lafayette, the first
station south Of Galya. on the c.. R.
1. & P. road. was tapped Tuesday
night of last week for $50. The mar
rative reads like the story of your
childhood days. Tools from the VII
lage blacksmith shop. safe opened,
stamps and cash gone, nobody awak-
, ened, no clew. postmaster frantic"
II these robberies occurred regularly
In Chicago, and the crooks allowed
to go uncaught, the public would de-
clare that the gang was protected by
the police, but federal etiquette does
not depose to permit such insinua-
tons to be cast on Uncle Samuel's
, nimbIe secret service sleuths.
: A Savanna, H., dispatch which will
!. be Of interest to fishers and fish eat
: ers, says: Mississippi river carp
: colored pink and labeled salmon have
: long supplied the tables in the East
! ern states This remarkable industry
q has been revealed through the bienni-
[ al report of the Minnesota fish and
/. game commission. 1t only takes a 1T
5 tie coloring matter and a nice bright
( label on the round tin can to turn the
; sluggish carp of the Mississippi to the
J salmon Of the Columbia The chief
market for the carp, caught principal
" In Lake St Croix is in New York.
although Philadelphia. Chicago and
St Louis take large quantities. Carp
fishermen are getting rich fast, the re-
:, port stating that Frank Gantebein of
Fountain City caught $4,000 pounds of
{ carp on one haul of the SCENE. For
!. this lucky haul he received $500. His
brother David In one month caught
t 10000 pounds of the going-to-be-sal-
s mon and received $1,000 as his re-
h muneration. The largest catch dur
: ing the season was taken by L. F.
+ May, who fished in Lake Pepin and
added $4,000 to his bank account A
/ large number Of Lacrosse fishermen
/ also are making big stakes on rough
fish. The seining Of rough fish in the
Mississippi and st. Croix rivers brings
an annual revenue to the fishermen OF
8 ss50000 more that ten times the value
). of the fish taken in the American
r waters Of the Lake OF the Woods,
& whole Rainy Lake and the north
8 shore of Lake Superior combined. OF
b the total catch 10 per cent are carp.
n the balance being made up of buffalo.
j sheephead, catfish. pickerel. sunfsh
and sturgeon.