The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-07
CITY NEWS.

ALI ladies' suits cost N. Lowitz.
John Markley has fine lot of
chickens for Saturday. Order early.
The Roll-a-Way will open early to-
morrow afternoon, and there will be
a jolly crowd there also in the evening.
! Word was received in the city to-
day of the death of Mrs. Ruby Parker,
an aged resident of Belfast, who pass
led away at the home of her sister
Mrs. ]. T. Starr at that place Mrs.
Parker was we'll advanced in years
and has lived at Belfast for long
time. She was an aunt of G. o. Starr,
of 1913 Blondeau street this city.
Rev. j. w. Potter, pastor OF the
Trinity M. Z. church has gone to Des-
Moines and while there will be the
guest OF Governor Carroll, who is an
old time friend of the minitser. Rev.
Potter will preach in the church at
tended by the governor Sunday morn
ing and will speak at the Y. M. C. A.
meeting in the afternoon.
Centerville Citizen: F.. H. Ustick,
| general superintendent of the Missouri;
lines of the Burlington, was in this
city yesterday evening on trip of in
spection, having been met at Keokuk
by Superintendent Hamm and other
officials of the Centerville division.
The inspecting party from the general
| offices consisting Of Daniel Willard,
second vice-presldent,s F. q. Ward.
! general manager and other lesser Of
/ ficials is expected soon. Local boost
/ ers should get ready to entertain them.
Quincy Journal: Arrangements
were made by long-distance telephone
last night for wrestling match be-
tween Charles Henneman, of Keokuk,
Iowa. son of the former chief of po-
lliice there, and Harrison Good win, the
local champion lightweight mat ar
fist. This match is to be on the pro-
gram for next Thursday night, as one
j of the preliminaries. Young Klein
and Edmond Bocuet, both bantam
weights, will open the show, and a
4 wrestling battle royal, between six
business college students, will come
/ Immediately before the big match be-
i tween Charles Pettee, of ST. Paul, and
4 Fred Bartl of this city.
i Quincy Herald: The river con-
tinues to rise. More rain fell in this
vicinity last night. The rainfall here
was less than at Warsaw or Hannibal.
4 At Warsaw IA of an inch fell and at
Hannibal 10 of an inch fell. The
a river stage here will exceed Is feet
and the river will continue to rise
4 for the next twenty-four hours. The
! storm here last night or this morn
ing was accompanied by hail for a few
moments. Up on Lone Tree prairie
water is tapping the ties of the K
line railroad and the wagon road is
under water. In speaking of the flood
between Quincy and Keokuk today Pr
lot Mckenzie of the steamer keokuk
stated that it is beginning to look
pretty bad for bottom land owners.
1t would seem from reports that
the crop of Ben Davis apples is not
z to be near as large this coming sea-
son as was expected some months
ago. The Ben Davis is considered the
commercial apple, the apple on which
the commercial orchardist always
figures on netting him profit, but
not. so this year, if some reports
. are correct. The following dispatch
lis from Noble, Richland county, Hi
nois: The outlook for apples with a
very few exceptions, in this, the
largest apple belt, is almost blank,
no bloom on most of the Ben Davis,
which constitutes 80 per cent of the
trees. There will be plenty of small
fruit and few summer and fall ap-
pies, but no fruit for export this
year. If there is enough for home
use it will exceed expectations. From
the present outlook the evaporated
: fruit men will not have any compe-
tition from this part of Illinois.
Catholics of Houghton and vicin-
ity on Thursday, May 20, Ascension
day, will celebrate the browning fea-
ture of their endeavors by the dcdica-
ton of the magnificent new edifice of
st. Johns parish, to replace the one
DESTROYED by fire March 10, 1908. At
tended by the splendid ritualistic cere-
monial of the Roman Catholic church,
the dedication wifi In all probabilities
be held at 10 o'clock, when Rt. Rev.
James Davis. d. D., bishop of the
Davenport diocese, together with a
!. number of priests from other parishes
will enact the impressive services.
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