The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-26
CITY NEWS

Unitarian Christmas sale date
Dec. IS.
i Veteran parade at 1:s0 p. m
+ Tuesday at Warsaw's soldiers anc
4 sailors reunion.
The regular monthly meeting O
the Commercial club directors will be
held this evening.
Go with the crowd to Hancock
county soldiers and sailors reunion
at Warsaw Tuesday and Wednesday
Attorney r. N. Johnson of Fort
Madison attended the opening of dis
trict court here today.
Attend Troubadour concert and
dance at NJ. W. A. hall Wednesday
night under the auspices of NJ. w. A.
The Hawkeye Investment com
pany has conveyed to H. c. Powers
of Milton, Iowa, lot IL, block 2, Hawk
eye addition.
Regular meeting of Knights and
Ladies of Security, Keokuk Council
No. 1889 at A. o. u W. hall at s
o'clock. Meet the first and third
Monday of each month.
The Troubadours will play for
both concert and dance at NJ. w. A.
hall Wednesday night Ladies csc;
gents soc. for both concert and dance.
The Iowa Childrens Home at Des
Moines has been quarantined. Three
children are i'll with diphtheria and
about thirty have been treated with
antitoxin to prevent a spreading OF
the disease.
There was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward w. McManus a baby girl
late Sunday evening. The father is
the Youngest member of the KeokuIx
bar and was receiving congratula-
lions from the legal fraternity today.
Two hundred dog notices were is
sued by the city attorney on Saturday.
to those who have not paid
for their animals In the latter case
there are several who have paid
license for their pets and the same
through some mistake or other has
not been entered on the books. Two
Or three angry lady citizens appeared
in the city Office this morning pre-
pared to tear some one limb from
tree for sending them notices when
their dogs were already licensed to
run about.
1t may be that the Keokuk high
school football team will not have a
chance of playing the Quincy high
school eleven game of football this
year, as press notices in that city say
that trouble exists between the coach
and captain of the team, the latter
having quit school and has gone to
work since being suspended for in
surbordination. Trimble did not ap-
prove of the methods of coaching
used by Coach Wurl of the Quincy
team and made open his dislikes. The
following schedule had been arranged
by the Quincy manager and may be
PLAYED out if the team decides to keep
in the game during the season. Oc-
tober 1, Monroe City VS.. H. S.. at
Monroe City. October 8, Carthage VS..
H. s., at Carthage. october Is, Keo-
kuk vs.. Fl. s., at Quincy. October %,
Jacksonville VS.. H. s.. at Jacksonville.
October %, Carthage VS.. H. S., at
Quincy. November 5, Keokuk vs.. H.
g. at Keokuk, November ~, Jackson
Vile VS. H. s., at Quincy. November
"a THANKSGIVING day), at Quincy,
but the opponents have not vet been
named.
Many dozens of persons have ask
ed since last Friday night how the
balloon was made to ascend out over
the audience during the comic opera,
"A Broken Idol.'' Those who really
saw the apparatus, of course, know
how the stunt was pulled off and the
few who did have a chance to see the
way the balloon was operated have
been kept busy answering the ques-
tons Of those who didn't. The way it
was done was simply this. A crane
shaft, some fifteen or eighteen feet
high was attached TO nothing more or
less than d small vehicle very like an
express wagon without the sides on.
or like the coaster express wagons
the small boy uses for pleasure. The
= A-SCts2 " lie --ilc-li 8dGDH were TuD-
Der tired go that the apparatus could
move noiselessly Running upward on
an oblique angle with the front of
the wagon and extending out in front
aslant about ten or twelve feet was
he crane. At the top of the crane.
he balloon was attached. a black
cloth affair with a basket appended.
Had the electricity been in commits
ion On the night Of the Broken
dolls" appearance here, some pretty
light effects would have been seen as /
oerle Bartf was swung out over the
audience and the stag hands pulled
md pushed the little wagon about and
owered and raised the balloon on the
.rane which made It look as though
he balloon really assembled of its
,wn gas power. AZ It was, the sight
vas one we'll worth seeing. though IN
.xplainable 10 many who didn't under
itand the workings Of the miniature
as bag.