The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-01
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ADVANCE SALE
EXCEEDS OTHERS
Pennington chautauqua Tickets are
Going Fast, Forecasting a Big
Crowd.

HARRINGTON, Iowa, Aug. III. M.
Eddy, chairman of the chautauqua
ticket committee, reports that the ad-
vance sales will surpass all previous
years by from $500 to $500. Yester-
day, July 81, closed the period for
advance sales and this morning Mr..
Eddy started on his rounds checking
UP the sales. With but few exceptions
every merchant turned in largely in
creased sales, insuring the success OF
the chautauqua from the first day.
When the entire sales are reported 1t
is confidently believed that the total
will reach at least s1,700 as against
$1,250 last year.
A full car load of tents and camp
furniture for the chautauqua arrived
here Saturday night and will be I'M
loaded today. BY Wednesday night
Anderson park will be dotted with
tents and all in readiness for the
sixth annual assembly which is to
open Friday at / O'Clock. Senator
Thomas P. Grove, the blind statesman
from Oklahoma, will open the chau-
tauqua. The country people from
Salem on the north to Revere on the
south, from Fort Madison on the
east and to Milton on the west, are
coming to hear him. No man has
been talked about more by the coun-
try, than Gore. Everywhere they
mention the blind senator as the one
man they want to hear. A rousing
big first day will start the chautauqua
fever and once started, nothing short
of impossible roads can stop the
tide.
Ollie James, the Kentucky congress
man, has cancelled all of his dates,
on account of his sick wife. The
change is disappointment, but Farm
ington promptly filed the Sunday date
with Dr. Henry w. Sears, the latter
for Sunday man is infinitely super
Tor to Mr.. James Sears Il his More
Taffy and Less Epitaphy,' is sure to
please any audience-he is irresistible,
mixing wit. humor and horse sense
into touching appeal for cleaner
better every day life.
"Zeb' Lewis, of West Point, who
disappeared from Pennington, June Z,
causing all kinds of rumors, has been
found This morning the Fort Madi-
son chief of police notified G. S. Ross
that Lewis had been in Fort Madison
and had returned to his family near
Sawyer station Lewis explained to
the officer that he had been in a Kan
sas City hospital
E. E.. Newman, the Standard Oil
tank line man, had an exciting expert
ence on the Des Moines river bridge
this morning. He had gone to the
west side with blind horse and wag
on and while returning was startled
by the approach of runaway country
team, which started across the bridge
in wild dash for home. The run.
always were coming zig-zag and pell
nell and there was no escape for the
oil man. Hastily jumping from his
wagon Mr. Newman took the young
son of Ex-Mayor Kelley, who was with
him, under his arm, he dashed toward
the runaways, yelling and waving his
hat. The scared and excited youngg
ster exercised his lungs to their full
capacity and together, man, boy, hat
and shrieks brought the team to q
stand still 1t was daring rescue
and narrow escape from an awful
mixup.
The brick masons commenced work
on the double front Price block to
day. The new building will be the
home of the post Office when complet
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