The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-11
CRY NEWS.

oh! You Dodges!
Hear Harvey G.. Hull sing tonight
at the Air Dome.
Have harness repaired at Sher-
woods, 7os Main.
Lot $3.50 to $500 wash dresses,
choice at sS.49. N. Lowitz's.
See notice of the Niagara Falls
excursion via. the Wabash.
Lot $3.50 to $500 wash dresses,
choice at s3.49. N. Lowitz's.
Merricks' best machine thread Z
spools csc, at Centrals sale.
Two Imp pictures tonight, The
Death of Minnehaha.'' and The
Rosary at the Air Dome
Hear Just Keep Cool at
Dodges tonight.
Big vaudeville of high class acts
at the Air Dome tonight
Lot $3.50 to $3.50 tub-slsirts, all
sizes, at s1.29. N. Lowitz's.
The raft boat North Star and bow
boat Harriet have finished with the
raft OF logs for Tabers and departed
up the river this morning. The lum-
Der company has more logs on the
way down the big stream.
A dozen harvest hands passed
through the city last evening on the
north bound evening train. going to
ST. Paul and to the harvest field in
the Dakotas and farther west. In
that section of the country farmers
are not SO much in need of men this
year as formerly and 1t is hard for
men to obtain work.
The Clinton auto party which ar
rived in the city the fore part of the
week, left this morning for their
homes by way Of Aurora and Chicago
and expect to be home by Friday or
Saturday. C. F. Miller of this city
accompanied the tourists. Those in
the party are: Mr. and Mrs. William
Eiselben and son Claude of Clinton,
Mr. and Mrs William Habras Of Clin-
ton, and Mrs. Freeman Smith of Dav-
export.
-Calicoes all go at sc per yard.
at Central's big sale,
Carrie Nation was the attraction
at the chautauqua at Kirksville, Mo-.
and over 1000 persons heard her talk
on why / Smash, How l Smashed
and How You May Smash, which was
in the nature of narrative of her
jail experiences In Kansas. She char
acterized Speaker Cannon as miser-
! able wretch; said President Taft was
an inf1del unfit to hold the Office of
president of the United States; and
declared the devil was the father of
Masonry. The receipts of Monday
will be sufficiently large to pay the
expenses of this years assembly. Mrs.
Nation characterized the saloons as
hell holes and things to be destroyed
by force. She fayed the republican
party, spanked the democrats, and
singed the Masons and other fraternal
orders.
! Entire change of program tonight
at the Air Dome
| If you enjoy good music, go to
Dodges tonight.
The mouths of Keokuk people
are watering for good piece Of ripe
watermelon but the market this sea-
son does not seem to be overly stock
ed with the green-out and red-in fruit.
The following from Ft Madison
paper will serve to increase the an
guish and send hopes sky high: j.
l.. Strop, living on the sand prairie a
short distance west of town, seems to
have the distinction of bringing the
seasons first load of homegrown wa
termelons to market. Sixty of the
first grown constituted the first ship
ment and all were taken by local
grocer to be offered at retail for TWEEN
ty-five cents apiece Reports from
various sections of the watermelon
districts show that the crop Is to be a
light one, the scarceness of the mel
ons being due to the hail storms which
earlier in the season threatened total
destruction to the crop.