The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-21
CITY NEWS.
ROYAL Neighbor coffee at Nc.

Royal N6lghbOr cOt1ee at NC
Mains home has been postponed.
A suit has filed in the District
court by William +. Altchide VS. Bessa
A. Mills aud Others asking for divis
ion of the north half of the southeast
quarter section "a, township 60 north.
of range west.
The game with Quincy should at
tract large crowd if weather condi-
tons are in any way favorable. This
is the first game for Keokuk with a
team of the Central Association, and it
will be means of ascertaining the
strength of the local aggregation.
George F. Rummel, Burlington
route freight agent at Burlington, has
resigned his position to enter the en-
ployment of another road. The new
freight agent is W. c. Jeffry of Mon
mouth. whose successor will be e. P.
Wyman of Charlton, Iowa.
The tri-cities, Davenport, Rock
Island and Moline, failed to land the
Glidden automobile tour, but had they
been little earlier in the field with
their invitation would probably have
succeeded in having the tour to be
made soon from New York, take in the
three cities, enroGte. The three cities
are all enthusiastic auto towns and
will no doubt be heard from in no
small way during the coming summer
and fall season.
#. H. Ustick, general super
intendent of the Missouri lines
of the Burlington, travelling in
his special car attached to train
No. 10, arrived in Keokuk at 7;2O
O'Clock last night. He was accompanied
by Superintendent A. N. Willsie OF
the Hannibal division, and j. w. Cyr,
master mechanic. They went to Chi
cago where they will attend meeting
of the operating officials of the road.
The first raft of the season will be
received by Burlington and the raft
due for Taber's the first of May will
be the second The Ben Hershey and
tow boat is bringing the raft down.
The Clinton Herald contains the fol
lowing: The first raft of the season
went down the river Saturday evening
passing through the bridge shortly
J after 9 o'clock. The first raft to &c
through the new Clinton bridge was
towed by the steamer Ben Hershey
, and her tow boat, with Captain Day
r of Davenport The passage through
the bridge was made with many toot
, ings of signals from the tow boat ant
' her consort. The raft is on its way tt
Burlington 1t is probable that bu
few RATS will be taken down the rive
G during the coming season, as most o
\ the mills have gone out of business
J. The river Carnival to have beer
i held this summer at Davenport during
\ the last week of August has beer
i changed to the third week in August
e the dates OF the regatta and carniva
. being from the 18th to the Dist 0
!. August The Peoria river races are t.
be held at that city on the 18th ant
;, 18th of August so that those who d'
not attend the Peoria regatta in tina
n city can go TO the davenport regatt
y which is perhaps nearer. Today
' Davenport Exchange has the follow
. ing to say of the event which will
. come week earlier at that place
: The dates of the Davenport river cal
), niyal have again been changed and tn
event will now take place during tn
third instead of the last week in Aus
! ust. The dates will be from Aug. 1
to y. The change was made to plac
:, the carnival in the same week durin
: which the races will be held The e,
: position will he held on the Three
: league baseball grounds during TIL
week mentioned Further arrange
r ments will he made later by the dire,
tors and committees.