The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28

CITY NEWS.

Gate Citr want ads par.
Ewer's Grand Leader. best SC cigar
Summer goods sale now on al the
Central Store
Attend United Presbyterian lawn
social. al Mr.. E, Hansen's, 1904 Elk
change, one block from car line FRI
day afternoon and evening. July 50.
The Power City Band wiil furnish
music from to 3. for The social given
5r the 81 Joseph Hospital AUXILIARY
toaorrow evening. on Hospital Lawn
Many Of The packets running
through here are well filed these
days ~i1h grain rs this Is harvest time
aas the crons have been good The
frssght rates On steamer are cheaper
sis, On ran znd thus al who are able
ship hy water.
Iii IVES most conscsI sight TO see
pedestrians along Main and other
streets make eee line for 3 friendly
door Nay las evening Ehea the rain
came up. Several parties who we're
ous On the river and did not expect 80
sudden shower were soaked
thoroughly hy the 6orn pour which
lasted for hals hour.
There was no game played h the
Sunday school league last eveaing be-
twesn the Baptist and the Trinity
teams. On sccouns OF the bad condi-
tons OF the grounds A game VII be
rlared tomorrow evenEng between the
Westminster team and the Christian
church aggregation If the grounds
are Ia q dryer condition than they
Eere last eTsnsnE
Have ron attended Ceatrais big
suEs- goods clearance sale.
Seventy-fve h-icklsye-s are 10 be
Imported into Dss Nsszes with IN the
reu twc weeks 50 that improvements
costing 81 600 .slsa mar BE completed
before winter sets IN Since the brick
layers ten days strike there has been
scarcity OF nssons, and as result
the Contractors association advertised
II the papers az Minneapolis. Ciacin-
natl. Chicago, 81. Louis and Kansas
City for wo-kmsn The contractors
av there Is more building being done
n Des Moinss now than IN any other
ctr IA the middle west n proportion
10 its population and unless brick
masars are brought from cutsi6e
points the extensive Improvements
VII rot be completed before snow
fails
Summer good al going a. big rs-
ircssons At Central Store
Nauvoo Russier.. / e. Freeman
who has been IN this vEcsnitE making
a survey Of The river and checking II
plans and reports Of Engineer Cooper
On tfA 1ate- power proposition fos
eastern capitalists. which IS besng 50
! lirsted ii the project VIII make his
rsTa-s 10 the capitalists n August
The Gate City states hat from ad
rance reports. 4 seems that he vii
make Z report so favorable that ths
capital VII be Forthcoming. The fac
that Mr. Freeman. himself. an eE1inen
engineer. agrees wfsh Mr. Cooper tia
the water power project Is not OIL,
feasible but 5 good investment ans
woald be : successful undertaking
adds 70 TIE optimistic view Of II
situation.
Word from Burlington Is 10 the e
feet that The fog IS 6sszrranging II
schedules Of TIE upper river boats an
TIE dense banks that hang over III
river hare made navigation Official
proposition. delaying the Diamond
line steamers and tieing NJ the racl
cts The steamer Quincy was due :
Burlington from the north az As
o'csock yesterday afternoon, b-t Il
! Hot get IN Until 1850 Eas- night tt
s. PAM arrived from the south q
roz-a 90 The uppsr river AZ 81
Tie steamer. Columbia whic
! left Burlington last Monday ns<l
~zs forced 10 80 70 the hank near Ne
Bos-ol rs il =zs impossible FOR tie r
lot 70 pick oct tie channel owing !
the tE2easuzbIe ing tha- ciosa5 IN {
me boat and o5scured the lights Q
TIE shores that serve as beaoons !
! he navigator