The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-23
CITY NEWS.


p Wolfe. -sorseshoeing. is S. 10th.
SIS Suits now $l4.4o at Peter
sons.
Puckechetuck lodge No. is meets
every Friday evening at 500 o'clock.
+ :: Cushman. N. g.: George VI. I'm
megart secretary Initiation.
Go to Quincy on the Keokuk Sum
day for 60 cent?. good for return trip
after the ball games. Boat leaves
ikeokuk at s o'clock.
Special excursion on new steamer
Keokuk to Quincy Sunday. Monday.
Tuesd ~ and Wednesday. Rate OF GO
cents will be in effect during the four
days.
Keokuk is again enjoying summer
resort July weather. The evenings
have been as cool and pleasant as sea
shore weather and no one is com.
planning about the heat.
Major Montgomery NJ. Meigs
went to Quincy yesterday on the
steamer Grace to inspect some work
which is being done there by govern
ment employees.
Hugh Cosgrove and Carl Mein-
berg had little experience the other
night with spooning cLuple which
almost resulted seriously for them all
while out buggy riding. The two
were going along In buggy when they
noticed vehicle coming towards
them in the opposite direction They
turned out giving more than half the
road. but the other driver seemed to
be paying more attention to the Young
lady at his side han to the straight
narrow path in front. The result was
that collision occurred and the shaft
and tugs OF Cosgrove's buggy were
broken. In order that they might moi
be seen the young man whipped VI
| his horse and wen. on without seeing
| what the damage was.
Some people are ge ting bargains
at Peterson's Clearance Sale. Are
you?
Quincy Wing: The government
boat Grace arrived here yesterday at
iternoon from Keokuk, bringing Majo
Meigs, in charge of the work Of deep
ening the harbor in Quincy and 0the
j places. AS the steamer came In por
members OF the crew tested the dept
of the river In the places where tn,
work has been in progress. The loca
part of the work is rapidly nearing
completion and steamboat men are ex
pressing satisfaction over the result!
that have been accomplished. Thu
Hecla and the pontoons will be NOV
ed from here to Louisiana. Mo-, whert
about the same amount of work vii
| be done. &
West Point Bee: Ray Bonnell and
Miss Alma wins. both of near Dover
met with accidents Sunday caused b,
a runaway. They had been spending
the day with friends near Fort Madi
son and were on their return hom'
about $3.50 in the evening when nea
the George Shook farm. three mile
east OF West Point, when the hors'
/ they were driving became frightened
at some fluttering handbills which
were nailed to "a telephone post ant
made mad dash down the road. Boil
j occupants were thrown out and Nj
Bonnell received very severe tract
ure OF the left arm and Miss WINS hal
/ her left limb broken below the knee
both bones being fractured. Bot
were more or less bruised otherwise
They were taken to the home of Gee
Shook. DR.. E. L. Trevitt of this plac
was called and attended both of then
Both are getting along nicely. TIL
horse and buggy we're soon after
wards caught with very little damag
| to either one.
An important event in the UIste
| States in 1909 will be the second ar
nual exposition of the National Hort
cultural congress which will be give
at Council Bluffs, Nov. Is to 20. TIL
exposition Of 1908 was unique. It wa
| the first of its character to be hel
anywhere. 1t was the result of ne'
| idea conceived by few vigorou
minds. and executed with astonishin
alacrity. The preliminary work wa
not begun until early in the summe
| of that year, and the organization wa
not completed until later. An immens
brick auditorium, steam heated an
! capable of holding 5000 people wa
erected and equipped in little NOR
than month. The scope of the entel
prise was outlined and the plans e,
planned to fruit growers throughou
the country in the short time that RI
NAMED before the opening. Yet wit
this hasty preparation twenty-on
states were presented with fruit
grown from Maine to California, fror
Texas to Minnesota. making possibi
most auperhly beautiful exposition
which was the wonder and delight G
the thousands of visitors who cam
from all parts of the country.
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