The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-07
CRY NEWS.

DR.. Colby. Dentist, over YounKer >
THE Princess Nicotine" at
Dodges' tonight.
The city council will meet this
evening in regular monthly session.
Yesterdays rain spoiled many
picnic or outing planned for Labor
Day.
Talk about your Jubilee singers.
you want to hear .Boo-lcr.Poo-Loo-
Eyes" at Dodge's tonignt
There is considerable activity in
retail lines. Keokuk merchants are
anticipating big fall and winter bust
ness.
The steamer Adeline passed
through here yesterday on her way
to Quincy. while the Gardie Eastman
passed up after having gone down the
day before with several barges
Masonic Regular meeting OF
Eagle Lodge No. IL. A. F. & A. M 81
o'clock Tuesday evening Sept. 18th.
1909. Visiting brethren fraternally In
vited. BY order Of the w. M. 8. H.
Johnston. Secretary.
Hubert Nelson Of Argyle, who
formerly lived here and attended high
school will take UP work as school
master, having secured position at
the Belfast, Iowa, educational insti-
tuition. His sister, Miss Bertha. will
also teach, having secured the school
at Sargent Both graduated from the
local high school last term.
There was strike on the steamer
Keokuk at Quincy Sunday when with
one OF the largest cargoes of the sea-
son on board the roustabouts demand.
ed higher wages and upon their de-
mand being refused would not unload
the freight. The goods was finally
gotten off after the pilot, captain.
mate and ali the other officers lent
hand
AT 500 o'clock last evening the
| fire department was called to the
Acknowledgment factory on the
corner OF Eighth and johnson
streets where the coal pile in
the shed had ignited from spon-
taneous combustion. There was no
damage done, the burning coal ber
ing removed. Through mistaken
orders part Of the department went
to Eighth and Concert streets.
A discussion in the Drexel yester-
day afternoon led up to Charley Hen
neman offering to bat any man in the
house at foot race, ne to run 120
yards and the other man to run 100
yards. Bob O'Blennis took him up
and the crowd retired to the alley be-
tween Main and Blondeau at eighth
street, where the race started down
the alley. Both runners made the mud
fly and when the finish was reached,
| Henneman was In the lead by about
Is yards.
Quincy Wing: A IRE of unknown
origin. supposed probably to have
been started by tramps burned the
Bluff Brewery Ice house, owned by
/ Ignatius Hafner, son-in-law Of Mrs. F.
x. Schill, owner OF the brewery, and
foreman at the brewery, shortly after
midnight this morning. The building
was discovered by the Waterman in
charge and by Q o'clock nothing but
the walls were left standing. The
building wac valued at about $4,000
and contained about 1000 tons OF ice,
which were fully covered by insur-
1 ance.
Quincy Wing: Capt j. d. Met
ford, one of the Oldest pilots on the
river, and who knows the stream like
a book from st. Paul to ST. Louis, dis
cussed river conditions in relation to
Quincy yesterday, and was far more
loquacious than usual. IN response to
a question, he condemned In no unnis-
taxable manner the dredging work
recently done in the harbor, claiming
the thousands of dollars spent there to
have been virtually thrown away. Ac-
cording to him, the excavations made
in the river bottom are already filling,
and in short time there will be no
preceptible difference. He said the
same places have been dredged out be-
fore and promptly filled, and that the
same thing will occur every time
should it be done every month. Stand
ing on the river bank, the old pilot
4 pointed out just how the current will
bring the sand back to the places from
which it was pumped, and also how 1t
could have been done to make 1t as
near permanent as possible.