The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-31
CITY NEWS

School shoes at bargain prices.
Star Shoe Store.
Wanted--Appreutices to learn
millinery at Miss Baldwin's. 614 Main
St VIII g.ye some wages.
Street fair meeting eight O'Clock
this evening at the Commercial club
rooms Eight o'clock sharp. You are
requested to be present.
Tomorrow win be the first day OF
September and considered by many
people TO be the first day Of fall. al.
though fall does not begin officially
until the 2lst day OF the month.
The agreement for closing at
P. m. on Saturdays expired last Sat
urday. the last Saturday in August.
but il has worked SO satisfactorily
that the jobbers and railroad com.
panies have agreed to continue this
arrangement until further notice.
The people of Kahoka have rails
ed fund which viii be expended dur
ing the fair to be held in that city in
sprinkllng The roads between the city
and the fair grounds. This will be
feature that viii be appreciated by
the patrons of the fair.
Local railroad men give out the
information that business is expected
to be heavy this fall The roads are
getting their freight equipment in
shape and the power has been pre-
pared with view OF hauling all the
freight that is offered. Tie trade
agencies prophecy busy times and
there is general feeling that good
times viii be here TO stay.
Quincy Journal: Mrs. B. ".
Dickinson Of 147o Hampshire enter
tanned THE Busy Twelve company
Of young girls who fornely worked
for Blessing hospital and woodland
Home. at ghost party" Saturday.
Mr. and s--s. Charles Dickinson and
son Beverly came down from Keokuk
Saturday to visit Mrs Dickinson.
Quincy Herald: Pilot Mckenzie
OF the steamer Keokuk reported hav-
ing seen six or eight launches on the
up trip yesterday afternoon. one OF
them a stranger that appeared to be
one OF the best equipped and hand
soonest crafts seen on the river this
summer. II was headed down
stream, and is said to have carried a
party of Burlington people. bound for
the gull
Quincy Herald: VII Sinnock is
still the star of the golf links. IN
the course OF foursome PLAYED yes
terday afternoon he established new
record for the nine holes. He made
them in 81. This was the record of
the course last year but since then II
has been heightened and changed
until there is difference OF at least
two or three strokes. The 81 of last
year would be easily 80 over the
present course Sinnock's score yes
terday was as follows: A, s,
8, 8. %37 The fifth hole is often
n-1de in 3 and the sixth in 5, SO that
but for the falling of on these holes
he had 2 possible IS. At any rate it
was great golf
"A dispatch from Carthage says:
hODerr BoSe. TIE young IeiiOF IEOHt
Warsaw, who was brought here to
Jan by Sheriff Bertsehi. after Walter
Smith had been killed on the fly
wheel in Alher's mill last FRIDAY night
following a fight the two had. seems
to be Just as unconuerned as If Smith
were not dead and he in jail, a result
OF the trouble he had with him over
game of pitch. Sheriff Bertschi said
that he heard that Boke is wanted in
Columbus Junction. Iowa, for using
I'D three officers there. He SAYS he
Is Indifferent as can be and that
when he took him 10 jail he seemed
as unconcerned as IL he we're coming
from a wedding instead Of death
scene His preliminary has not been
held yet and no date has been fixed
fer it. The verdict of the coroner's
jury was that Walter Smith came to
his death by coming in contact with
the drivewheel In the Warsaw Milling
company's mill"