The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-27
CITY NEWS.


Smoke Bevering' Bob White" SC.
-P. Wolfe, horseshoeing, 16 8. 10th.
-Puckechetuck lodge No. - meets
every Friday evening at 500 o'clock.
w. E. Rokey, N. c.; George w. Imme-
CART, secretary.
ALI members Of the finance COM
mittee and others requested to be pres
ent at the meeting In the Commercial
club rooms at eight o'clock.
Rev. J. W. Tower, OF Rochester, n.
Y. and formerly pastor Of the Pres
byterian church at Carthage, H., will
preach Sunday morning at the First
Westminster Presbyterian church.
Special for Saturday till 9 p. m.
regular SOC and 75c a dozen finest
thin blown table tumblers, plain
banded or finely etched at Sc eacn.
Limit of twelve to customer. Dun
can-Scheli Furn. Co.
Quincy Journal: p. A. Thomas
and R A. Berger. two Wisconsin uni
versity students. are making novel
canoe trip on the interior water ways
this summer. They started out in
June frorm Grand Rapids. Wisconsin.
They have many thrilling stories to
tell OF their experience thus far. They
were passengers down on the Keokuk
yesterday, having decided to take a
rest, after getting soaked Wednesday
night by the rain above the Keokuk
Rapids.
The Independent Baptist mission,
which has been holding services In
the hall on Fifth street for some time,
has organized in a permanent man
ner and taken the name of Union Bap-
fist church At a meeting this week
D Nv. Anderson. who has been in
charge of the mission, was elected as
delegate rom the new church to the
Iowa and Nebraska association which
meets in Omaha in September. The
new church expects to secure minis
ter room.
Charles Howard, general manager
of the II. N. & s. road, running from
Muscatine TO Elrick Junction, stated
according to special from Muscatine
that the road would extend its line
from Elrick Junction 10 Burlington
Mr. Howard would have little to say
beyond this statement He states that
the majority OF the stock Of the VI.
n. & s. has been secured by parties
Lot interested in any other road and
that the extension will be made It
Is said that the new deal means that
there will be new rolling stock and
better equipment and service all
around for the new road. The present
equipment Is In bad condition The
affairs of the II. n. & s. have been
decidedly unsettled for years, rumors
prisire almost constantly as to its
disposition. At present the line ex-
tends only to Elrick Junction, sort
OF jumping off place.
Burlington Gazette: II there Is
any way under the sun whereby hui
man effort can raise and recover the
bodies of Mrs. Jordan and Mrs Con-
over, the two Mt. Pleasant women
drowned here last Friday evening, It
will not be overlooked. Almost a
week has elapsed since the unsortuu
ate accident and while the body Of
Edward Lee. one OF the victims, was
found. there Is no race of the remains
OF the women. 1t is the opinion of
rivermen and the conclusion is a log
ical one that the clothing OF the VIC
tins oft he accident caught on snags
on the bottom of the river and they
are being held in that position. How
ever 1t is all a surmise as the history of
drowning accidents does not establish
any precedent for the recoveries OF
bodies. II the remains o. person do
not come to the surface within a GER
tain period an dtais period in sum-
mer is short, in hot weather, IT
stands to reason that they are snag-
ged on the river bed and can anIy be
located and brought to the surface by
systematic dragging.