The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10
NOTES AND COMMENT.

NOTES AND COMMENT.
County Superintendent Hemingers
candidacy for state superintendent is
meeting with large favor all over
Iowa.
president Taft's idea seems to be
that a progressive Republican ought /
to be a Democrat says the Sibley
Tribune.
1t is observed by the Sioux City
Tribune that living in Chicago en-
ables one to describe hell with III
usual facility.
Alex Miller declares that some
folks look so ugly that it would be
hard to do anything to them that
would make any difference.
The Washington Democrat has no
ticed that a good many men who like
10 brag that they do their own think
,ng have not much to brag on.
Tn Fort Dodge Chronicle is con-
WINGED that joy-juice does not mix we'll
with gasoline even when one is the
driver and the other is in the tank.
1 1t seems to the Omaha Bee that the
Boston physician who decries surgery
1 for appendicitis as criminal opera
ton can hardly have noticed that In
many instances it is already cap
| ital offense.
Governor CARROLL says the Cres-
ton Advertiser, has not been fac
tional governor, and he deserves
nomination for another term without
opposition or, the suggestion of oppo-
sition."
The Mt. Pleasant Commercial club
has been making an effort to develop
the stone quarries near that place,
but experts tell them that, while there
is some excellent stone there, most
of it is OF such an inferior grade that
Il it has no value.
Word has been received from
Washington that the figurehead of
the battleship Iowa has been for
warded to the Iowa historical depart
ment. 1t was secured for the depart
ment through the efforts of Congress
man Frank P. Woods.
Co.. OF fha state
, institutions will be bumpers this year
according to Chairman Cownie, of the
board. He declares that the potato
crop at Knoxville would run as higf
a as 300 bushels an acre, while the corr
1 crop at most of the state farms woult
! run as high as sixty bushels to thu
), acre. He says that the fine SHOWING
= made is due to care taken in selectin'
Il the seed.
#
= Curator Harlan, of the historical 6e
partment, is just now making an es
pecial effort to get the portraits c
% the great men of Iowa for the POI
= trait gallery. Iowa has reached tn
!, age when the men who made the earl
=, history of the state have arrived {
- the sunset of life. Many have alread
i gone on. Mr.. Harlan is anxious to gt
,a the portraits o. all to be preserved
" the portrait gallery and is anxious
n get them by the best painters Thel
GO is already magnificent collection
- the states celebrities in the CALLER
= and the number is being added to re
cd ularly.
IS. John Alex Young, cashier of Il
ID Washington National bank for thirt
,u- one years, has resigned the cashie
ne ship and will retire from active Sc
vice January 81, 1910. He beg
work as assistant cashier of the bal
January q, 1874, and was ma
To cashier July July 1, 1878, which pc
ton he has held ever since, witne:
La ing the bank develop from strr
Cling institution into one of the me
prosperous banks in the state. I
~ deposits have grown from $4,000
100000, with a surplus of $1,000
~ The board of directors extended t
ts retiring cashiers salary to July