The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-08
CITY NEWS.

Baseball today. tomorrow, Satur-
day and Sunday.
Mrs. Martha A. Wilson who died
recently In Carthage at the age Of
seventy-one years was brother OF 8.
8. Wilson OF this city
Tomorrow will be ladies' day at
the baseball park AMI should weather
permit many fans Of the fair sex will
be out to witness the Lunatics and In
dams battle.
Services will be held this evening
and tomorrow evening at the Swedish
Lutheran church, corner Twelfth and
Morgan streets. These special serv-
ices will be conducted by Rev. Seed
ergren of Burlington and Rev. Segger-
hammer of st. Louis. Services COM
mences at eight o'clock.
1t is not uncommon for clothes to
be stolen from Clothes line in
yard, but stealing them right out OF e
tub is not common feat. However
this is what happened at residence
on Timea street yesterday some
one entered the porch where the
clothes were soaking over night and
took the best ones in the tub with
them. Maybe they wanted to help out
with the washing and took them home
to iron. They have not been return
ed yet. however, and will probably
not be seen again by the former own
ers.
The large assembly OF motor boats
| which were gathered at Burlington
this week. represented an enormous
sum of money, total investment O..
over 100000 being represented by the
craft which filled the harbor at that
city. They looked small gliding over
/ the water and there were but few 60
ing at time but the entire bunch ran
into money. There was not a racing
boat there that did not cost the owner
over thousand dollars. There were
in the neighborhood of thirty full cab
4 in cruisers there and these mahogany
finished and finely equipped boats,
would run up bunch of money fast.
speaking ofAthe game last Sun
day at Memphis the Reveille of that
place says: A ball game between
Memphis and the Fower City team of
Keokuk was ore of the principal at
fractions of the day. The contest was
pulled off at the city ball park in the
northeast part of town and was well
played-the locals winning by score
of to o. Keokuk failed dismally al
the bat, John Wiegner tanning four
teen of the visitors as fist as they ap
peared before him. Roy Stefan acted
in the capacity of umpire and his de
cisions were received without question
he being fair and impartial in his
rulings Memphis has fast team ant
can hold their own It'll any team II
this part of the state The gate re
cefpts amounted to $50.
4 -Des Moines Register and Leader
! Big Jack Mertens is back in De-
! Moines. He came back because Quin
cy was SO anxious to have him. Mer
tens originally came from Quincy
That is where he started his 25,00
mile trip through forty-seven state
and BATS counties. Quincy claim
that he can't play with any other team
! in tae Central association and the con
tention has the backing of Secretar.
Farrell of the National commission
| John F. Higgins wanted to keep
string on Mertens so sent him t
| Keokuk, but Quincy raised howl, ant
| to hold on the big fellow it was nee
| essary to bring him back to De
Z
Moines. Mertens is likely to prove
big asset to Des Moines. If given
chance to show what he can DO il
| the outfield he is likely to break u
more than one game