The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-14
CITY NEWS.

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Basketball Wednesday and Thurs
day at Hubinger Park.
Chief Pancake -four, the old re-
liable, can be bought at all Keokuk
grocers.
Attend the baseball games tomor-
row and Thursday, the last games of
| the season.
will Riley resumed duties at
Wilkinson and Company this week,
after a three weeks illness.
Benevolent Union tea and musical
at Mr.. ]. E. Bakers Wednesday, Sep
TENDER 10. to g. Pub.scinvited.
The Quincy fair association will
hold celebration in that city on the
dates from September u to October
| /, inclusive.
James e. Bennett & Co, mem
hers of the Chicago Board of Trade
and st. Louis Merchants Exchange,
today opened their Office for business
In room 2. Gate City building. w. W..
Gwin is in charge of the local Office.
The baseball season In Keokuk
closes this week with the three games
between the home club and Hannibal
| Owing to the rain today the two
games will be crowded into tomorrow
| II possible, and one game Thursday
! By proper attendance the figurers for
the year can be boosted to close to
/ $4,000.
With the last stroke of the bell at
/ midnight on Wednesday next the
Jewish New Year $50 will be usher
ed in and will mark the beginning Of
series of services. holidays and fes-
rivals in the Hebrew temples, which
will continue for month. The fes-
tival incident to the new year is
known as Rosh Hashonah.
The baseball grounds are pretty
well drenched and it will be necessary
4 to play two games tomorrow, as pros
poets early today tend to put aside all
advisability of playing this afternoon.
The first game of the double header
will be played at o'clock and the
second will follow after all intermis-
1 sion of ten minutes. Both games
will be for the single price of admis-
1 sion.
i in the superior court this morn
ing Pima Triple, who lately married
Mat Hogan, objected strenuously to
being called by the first name and
hereafter she will be recorded in the
police annals as Mrs. Mat Hogan. She
was given thirty days in the county
jail by Judge Mcnamara for being
drunk Her husband was also up or
the same charge and was given THIRTY
days in the city Jail. Pat Murphy. q
drunk, was given five days in the city
: Jail.
The fire department made dasf
to Eleventh and Main streets at 4:4t
last evening where some little ex
element had been caused by the run
ming over of gasoline in the burner
cup of a gasoline stove. The f1uit
caught fire and set the floor aare ant
the department answered the cal
| which was sent in. hurriedly. Arriv
ing at the scene Of the fire the ser
/ vices of the department were no
: needed and the fire on the floor wa:
: nut out with bucket of water.
Word has been received by rela
: tives IN this city of the death OF WI
5 liam Hill. formerly Of Mooar Station
: and we'll known In this city. The de
ceased died at his home in Oklahoma
Yesterday and the body will be brough
here for burial tomorrow. He was a
one time postmaster at Mooar and con
Quoted a general store at that plac
until 1t burned out about two year
ago. "a conf1agration which will b
: remembered by many Keokuk people
His father, William Hill, resides
Mooar and brother, John Hi
superintendent Of the Arcade sta
ton of the St. Louis post oftic
0 survive him. He has wifi
and two children The body will b
/, brought here tomorrow.
The Iowa weather crop bullets
for the week ending Sept. IL, is a
:, follows: The fore port Of the wee
. was cool and cloudy with light show
ers. but the last four days gave an ea
cess Of temperature and more sur
shine with light showers on Saturda.
in western and north central districts
The cool, cloudy and damp weathe
during the fore part OF the wee
. checked the rapid maturing and dryin
up of the corn; but the needed mois
ture will be of some benefit to the lat
corn II frost holds off for anothe
month. Some of the early corn is no,
reported as being safe from frost. bu
!, most of 1t will need ten days to tw
weeks of warm, ripening weather t
g be entirely out Of danger. There ar
y some reports Of cutting corn in th
n early planted fields, and this work wi
|, likely be general in portions of tn
), state within the next two weeks. Pas
= lures are improving under the effort
g OF the late rains and considerabl
blowing and seeding of winter grain
3 has been done, but in the larger par
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