The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-07
THE DAILY GATE CITY
NOTES AND COMMENT.


1t seems to the washington Demo
crat that girls so away to school for
the purpose of making a lot of girl
friends who can come to spend the
summer WITH them.
1t is suggested by the Des Moines
Capital that Haugen. Kendall, Woods
and Hubbard might make hit at the
Chautauauas by appearing as the In
surgent Male quartet.
Johnny" said careworn editor to
his only son. Il know you want to-
help your father with an item. but I
would rather you'd stay away from the
pond till the ice gets thicker You
may come handy to feed the press
One of the most interesting men
you ever met, says the Cedar Rapids
Gazette. is the fellow who swears he
likes to hive in a rain soaked or sun
scorched tent on a river bank where
the mosquitoes and bugs are as taick
as heas on NANCY pup"
According to the Council Bluffs Non
pareil. every time new name is sug-
gested for the Republican nomination
for congressman in the Eighth dis
trict Jameson hires an additional
stenographer to increase the out
put of letters to his constituents.
Prosperity Is not headed this way
like a cyclone: it doesn't travel in a
whirling path: and if it did the dam
age might be greater than the bene-
fits. But improved conditions are to
be seen and felt on every side, and the
gain they make will be Leld.- remarks
the Davenport Democrat J.
The Waterloo Reporter holds this to
be true: II takes q rich man to draw
a check. a pretty girl to draw atten'
ton. horse To draw cart, 8 porous
plaster TO draw the skin, a topper tc
draw a cork. free lunch to draw q
crowd and an advertisement in you'
home paper to draw trade.
| August is the month that deter
mines nearly everything for Iowa,
SAYS the Des MONIES Tribune And
August has opened as corn mont
should. Two weeks of the right sor
; of weather now will insure tie stat
of q crop that will burst the crib
ard give the champion huskers an OF
portunity."
TIE Crsston Advertiser says tia
while it is not in favor OF free ray
| materials and regrets that hides hay
been placed on the free list, 1T
ridiculous for the tariff revisionist
. In Iowa, where the farmers wante
: duty on hides. 10 try TO saddle t.
responsibility for their action upo
the real prutactionisIs OF the stat
Free hides continues the Advertise
: was the logical result of the agit'
ton fo- tariff revision IN which OF
OF the Iowa factions las taken such
> par1 for number Of years and II
attempt 10 evade responsibility
cresfsfahie neither 70 their couras
{ nor their intelligence
I
4 The Des Moines Capital moves hi
J p. 4. Smiths bath bill rejected By L
executive council, be recoasisicre
. ~Mr- Smith. K SAYS, as been Esr
L Der 81 the pardon board about u
!. vezrs. and we are 10 infer that this
7 his first hath r might hare been :.
= anniversary al his last hath We
Z not know -t-at The ruie Is n SEz
b ten IN some localities the %
T. gcoz-ss Just before the cscse Of tie -
1. In oshs- localities the date IS lust
" fire camp meeting Bat since ne =
= ssrca s being bruaEat n ts1at tz1is
: he first bath tAz< Mr. Smith has .
- a. the state so-- II #oEld seem Il
sta.s cGgn- 70 care paid Eas 3
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ca sso-a 10 ~ssh and sc-1s ter p
lie ozcaaIs E-.sh coI selling AZ
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