The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-24
CITY NEWS.

DIR. HogeI has received new REQ
roadster and has joined the ranks
Of the automobiles.
The next Old Settlers meeting will
be held at Donnelson on Thursday.
August 10. The executive commit
tee decided upon the date and place
at meeting held yesterday.
The board OF education is to hold
its regular monthly meeting this even
ing at 7.3O o'clock. a number of new
teachers are to be selected at the meet
ing this evening to fill vacancies caus-
ed by weddings
This evening occurs the annual
meeting Of the Commercial Club in
the club rooms. The annual report of
the secretary will be read and the dir
ectors will be elected. All members
of the club are expected to be pres
ent at the meeting
AT the meeting tomorrow evening
in the superior court room Of the
Poultry association. all plans for next
falls poultry show are to be made ex-
cepting the hiring of a building. Com
nlittees will be appointed for all
branches of the show and thes acom-
mittees can do the preliminary work
without it being necessary for a num-
Der of meetingsof the association to
be held
The ticket agent of the several
! railroads Offices of the city, report a
/ lot of travel of local people at the
/ present time. The increase in travel
over the same time last year, during
! the present month is quite noticeable
and extra coaches are being carried
/ by the various roads to accommodate
Patrons. Many local people are at
tending or planning to go west to at
tend the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposi-
| ton.
The Lantern Club which was or
ganized last October and did not dis
4 band until the arc lights were turned
on in November, has not gone out of
existence altogether. Tuesday even
ing a good citizen in the neighborhood
Eof Sixth and Exchange Streets, had a
A light shining bright which proved a
wonderful aid to pedestrians during
i the late hours of the night, which was
4 as dark as a stack of black cats. Dur.
ing the nights the lights are off, it is
especially dark on cloudy nights.
Quincy Herald: Noble Warwick
superintendent Of the National GENE
tary at Keokuk came down with the
4 !, N, ~ TT ,oIy,,ty f1,fe
morning. Warwick visited the levee
the first time 40 years ago. when he
came down with other enlisted men on
il the steamer Diyernon, on her way tc
Il join Gen. Shernan's command al
i Jefferson barracks. near ST. Louis
One leg was shot off at Vicksburg and
he retired from active service. For
thirty years he has been in the Nation
al cemetery service, the last eleven
i years being at Keokuk He is well
known in Quincy, particularly among
the old soldiers.
4. Quincy Herald: Pilot Hugh
Mckenzie of the Keokuk said this
morning that he never before saw SC
many steamers on the river in the
same length of time since he was q
youth. AS the Keokuk came down il
passed the government steamer Henry
Bosse, just below Gregory, the bic
steamer Ben Hur above Canton, Cool
eys' show boat and steamer Vernie
Mack, at Canton, and the pleasure
steamboat, Helen. near LAGRANGE
.It looked like old times" said McKen
zie, when steamboats, were coming
and going all the time. In those days
one might pass half dozen in a da.
between Keokuk and Quincy, while
now they average lees than dozer
a week.