The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-09
CITY NEWS.
Baseball Saturday and Sunday

Lowest prices on oxtOrds AZ
Huiskamps sale. AL new styles.
Men, women and children's OK
fords. selling at cost. Star Shoe Store.
You cannot AFFORD to miss the
moonlight trip on the steamer w. w.
July 18th.
/ Boys, misses and childrens' shoes
and oxfords all included at Bode-I4ar-
sons removal sale.
Ben Jones, a plain drunk, was
| picked up by Officers Cahill and
/ Tigue at $500 o'clock last evening.
The Vermont street IA. E. Sunday
School of Quincy will give their an
nual excursion to Keokuk on next Fri.
day.
The weeds along the sidewalk be-
tween Water and First on Blondeau
street have been cut. This makes
quite a change as they were SO high
that child coulud hardly be seen
walking along,
Special for Saturday from till
/ 3 p M. rich American cut glass from
the best factories. Regular $1.75
naples at SIC; regular $500 naples
at 1920; regular $3.50 naples at
4 s1.35; regular 500 naples at $1.47.
| Limit OF one to a customer. Duncan
4 Schell Furniture Co.
/, "A number of names have been re-
ceived at the boys secretary's office
of those who are DESTROYS of going
camping. The dates Of the Y. M. G.
A. camp are from July % to August 21
and it will be held on jackson island OPP
/ posite the cereal works. making the
place one which is conveient to the
interurban and a cool spot on the riv-
4 e..
Over 500 carloads of potatoes will
probably be hauled out OF the Amert
can bottoms this year BY the Wabash
1 says the Decatur Review. Last year
4 the total hauling was slightly below
4 500 cars, but the crop this year is said
4 to be much heavier than the one OF
last year. Edwardsville is the main
loading point for potatoes. Last year
1853 cars were hauled out of there,
which figures will probably be sur
passed this year. The Wabash has
been preparing for this potato traffic
{, for some time and now has enough
cars sidetracked at points In the
American bottoms to handle the be-
ginning rush, which has already set in.
The rush OF eager buyers still
continues at the Bode-Larson removal
sale.
Last evenings Des MoinesCapital
said of the food situation there:
With the water at 1877 feet at 1900
& o'clock this morning and rising rap
idly the Des Moines river will prob
ably reach the highest point OF the
,, lyear within the next twenty-four OF
! forty-eight hours. 1t has risen TWEEN
ty-nine inches since Z o'clock yester
day morning, when the gauge on the
Locust street bridge showed the water
to be 113 feet deep. One week ago
the river went up to the Ia foot mark
It overlooked its banks in several
places inside the city limits, complete
, ly inundating long strip of land from
the Sixth avenue bridge down to the
boat house opposite the dam. The
water also covered Birdland drive in
Union park and several acres Of
ground In the southeast bottoms ano
at the junction Of the Des Moines and
Raccoon rivers Rain fell over the
!, northern part OF the state last night
! watch will cause the river to go t.
!, the IA foot mark again, but how mucl
higher is not known at this time.
The Quincy Journal contains thu
following about the Congregations
. excursion to Keokuk yesterday: Ii
. spite of the threatening weather thu
Congregationalists gave their annua
excursion yesterday. The big steame
! ]. S. left Quincy about $3.50 with owe
q four hundred people on board. A
! LAGRANGE party Of ten or fifteen per
sons Joined the excursionists, man,
: of them being well acquainted will
. the Quincy crowd. Keokuk waszreach
( ed about O'Clock, giving time for thu
n visitors to make a short trip up int
& the city, The return trip was mad
h in less than five hours. At LaGrang
n one of the passengers dropped MI
watch on the gang plank and did no
& discover his loss until after the boa
It was pulling out. In the meantime on
/. of the deck hands had picked it up an,
r turned it over the those in charge o
D the boat. The landing was made her
S at $780, and was in ample time 70
If the evening outing of tle letter cal
o riers. Although fairly well patron
d lied it was not financial success, a
G the church lost about twenty dollar
IS on the trip. The reason for this wa
e, that all members of the Sunda
IS school were given complimentary tic
< kets. Otherwise the excursion was
n grand success, as everybody OF
board had fine time.