The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-05
CITY NEWS

factory was let to John w. Young.
Henry Schaffer is spending
weeks vacation from the post Office
Regular meeting of Keokuk lodge
No. 131, ]. o. o. F., Monday night at
s o'clock.
George Mccormick OF Houston,
Texas, will sing solo at the morn
Ing service tomorrow at the First
Christian church.
Fishing at the lower. lock is re-
ported to have been rather good dur
ing the past few days. several good
strings Of croppies having been
caught.
There will be no Fourth OF July
celebration in Keokuk this year. Sew
eral people were talking about one.
but that was as far as the arrange.
ments ever got.
Mayor on has presented Rand
park with a peacock, which will prove
valuable, beautiful and interesting
addition to the many animals and
birds at the park
"A moonlight excursion on the
Steamer Dubuque will be given next
Thursday evening by the Catholic
Mems Club of the city and as it will
be the first moonlight Of the year a
large crowd is expected.
The sixth annual convention II
the Iowa State Association of Regis
tered Nurses. is being held In Dubuque
this week. Among those in attend
ance at the meeting are Florence
Stow and Marie Dunlavey Of this city.
Mrs. A. N. Wilsey, wife Of the well
known superintendent of the Hanni-
bal division of the K line, died yes
terday afternoon at o'clock at the
family home In Hannibal. The re-
mains are to be taken to Galesbura
for burial
The Steamer Dubuque Of the
Diamond 10 line Is one OF the best
river steamers plying in the waters OF
the Mississippi in this vicinity at the
present time. the boat is spacious
one and has an excellent dance floor
Next Thursday evening the Catholic
Mems Club has made arrangements to
give a moonlight and this palatial
boat has been chartered for the oc.
| casion. The boat will leave the local
landing at $3.50 p. M.
! Eureka Camp No. I Of the Royal
| Neighbors had most interesting and
enjoyable meeting last evening when
q class of about twenty-five new mem
bers were initiated into the order.
The Warsaw camp degree team had
charge of the work which was very i'm
pressive and afterwards, a banquet
1 was served. A large delegation from
Montrose came down and Warsaw sent
up a car full of people to attend the
meeting which was most enjoyable
one for all who were present
Homer D. Brown, the we'll known
horticulturist OF Hancock county, and
proprietor Of Wild Cat Springs, a fav-
orfte resort for picnicers during the
warm summer months, was Keo-
kuls visitor today and when inter
viewed by Gate City reporter regard
ing the present seasons crops gave
some valuable information. Peaches
and pears, according to Mr.. Brown,
are complete failure this year and
nothing in this line Of fruit can be
4 looked for. Apple trees will only pro-
duce partial crop during the sea-
son, while on the other hand berries
are looking fine and grapes also give
splendid prospects. AS a whole the
fruit outlook is not the best and the
production will be below the average.
Waterways Journal: The Silver
Crescent has gone to Wabasha, Mimi
where she will be dismantled. The
steamer ran for thirteen seasons be-
4 tween Keokuk and Quincy. Her ma
chinery will be placed on the new hull
which was built at Wabasha during
the winter and the remainder of the
Silver Crescent will be used for lum.
Der. The new boat is the Black Hawk
and will be larger than the Crescent.
She will, as soon as completed, be put
in the trade between Keokuk and Bur-
lington in place OF the Wenona and the
latter boat will go to Davenport as an
excursion boat The Silver Crescent
was built in 1882 at Clinton, Iowa, for
o. P. McMann and A. E. Duncan, who
used her in the rafting business for
ten years. when they sold her to the
Cardinal Packet Company. who re.
modelled her and in June Of 1892, en-
tered her in the Davenport Burlington
trade and continued in that trade for
three years. After leaving that trade
she ran for thirteen years between
Keokuk and Quincy.
III. T. Powers, boys secretary Of
the Keokuk Y. M. G. A. leaves Monday
for Detroit, Mich, to attend one OF
the most important gatherings OF
boys secretaries of the year. The
gathering will be of national signiii.
canoe because of the fact that it will
aid and sort Of point out work in the
boys department which will be CARR
4 ed to every association in the country.
There will be about twenty secre-
taries present and for a week they
will take up the. boy situation in De
troit The secretaries will visit the
juvenile courts. tie schools, churches,
4 poo1 rooms. dance halls pony arcades