The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-02
CITY NEWS.

Air Dome Great snow, tonight.
Read the Wabash adj 1t viii in
terest you.
-Four hundred seats at 1oc at the
Air Dome.
See the big line OF buggies and
harness at Sherwood S.
See notice of the Niagara Falls
excursion via. the Wabash.
Harvey G. Hull in character songs
at all shows at the Air Dome.
Remember Anti social at Belmont
school house Thursday, Aug. 4.
Don and Mae Gordon troupe OF
cyclists, sensational comedy cyclists,
at the Air Dome tonight.
Jolly Ruth Garnold, the Jolly
singer of jolly songs, an act for
laughter at the Air Dome tonight.
Regular meeting Morning Star
lodge No. 5. knights OF Pythias to-
night at 800 o'clock at Castle hall,
Fifth and Blondeau visiting Knights
invited. Special business. Make ex-
ira to be present. G. Bruce Lake, C. G.
The board of directors of the Y.
NJ. G. A. will meet at the Association
building this evening. The business
session will be held after supper
served in the lecture room at six
O'Clock.
Take your harness for repairs to
Sherwood. 703 Main.
Regular meeting Of the Order OF
Owls tonight, at their hall, correr
Third and Johnson streets. Visiting
Owls invited. BY order of Worthy
President. Paul T. Pechstein, secre-
tary.
Clyde Martin, the popular plan
ist OF the Dodge theatre, had the mis-.
fortune to get his right shoulder
badly wrenched in a friendly little
scuffle the other evening and is un-
able to attend to his duties on the
worries just at present. Mrs. Bernice
McCreary is musician in the absence
i OF Mr.. Martin. whose injury is getting
along nicely.
4 Miss Nellie Reddy, who has been
. visiting with relatives and friends In
the city for the past few weeks is an
other Keokuk girl that has made good
: While pupil in the st. Peters high
school she showed remarkable apt.
ness for the muscular system Of writ
Ing and so much SO that she received
J an offer from large publishing house
in Cedar Rapids who had examined
: her work, to come and act as their
critic OF all samples sent to them She
accepted the place and for the past
year has been the confidential advisor
of hundreds of aspiring penmen
4 throughout the United States. She
left this morning for Cedar Rapids to
! begin hs< second years work with the
3 company.
? ALI new pictures at the Air Dome
t tonight.
The Iowa weather crop bulletin
for the week ending July 81 as just
issued, is as follows: The average
temperature for the past seven days
was very near the normal. but the
rainfall was decidedly below the aver
age for the last week in July, al
!, though showers occurred on the
twenty-ffty and twenty-ninth in all
At many stations in the Des Moines
1 Iowa. and Skunk valleys the amount OF
rainfall exceeded an inch: the largest
i being 3.97 inches at Keosauqua Corn
I on low ground and deep soil, and
where the showers were heavy, still
? holds It's own and has made
3 progress, but over the north
eastern counties where there has
2 been little or no rain and In many
5 other localities where the soil is thir
and the rainfall has been light, there
4 are indications of firing. Three-fourths
r of the crop, however, is in excellent
! condition and can stand another week
of dry weather, but the other fourth
4 needs rain at once. Conditions have
$ been favorable for having, harvesting
!. and thrashing. Preliminary reports
. from thrashers indicate that the
! quality OF small grain is excellent ant
the yield will be considerably above
2 the average of past years. Excep
where the rainfall has been the heav
lest, pastures are practically bare ant
. afford but little feed for cattle. STOCK
water is getting scarce in many 10
calities. A heavy and general rair
is needed badly in all parts of the
state.
The big crowd was we'll pleased
at the Air Dome last night. Be with
the crowd there tonight.
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