The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-18
of grafters who thus bring a worthy
cause into disrepute.
AMONG OUR NEieHHoRs.

~N>N~HS
AMONG OUR NElGHRORS.
Clark County, Mo-, gave a majority
of seven against the prohibition
amendment.
Thirteen car loads of mules passed
over the K. & w. Tuesday enroute to
South Africa.
A corn and poultry show will be
held at Memphis November 90 and
30 and December / and 2.
All the proposed amendments to
the Missouri state constitution were
Overwhelmingly defeated in Scotland
county except the tenth, which car
ried by sixty-three votes.
The Democrats gained member of
the lower house in Henry county and
lost senator in Des Moines county.
A Kahoka contractor has the job of
building $4,000 city hall and fire
station at Olathe, Kansas.
Rev. j. Wesley Potter of this city
lectured on the Passion Play at Sa-
lem few evenings ago under the aus
pieces OF the Womans Club. The News
reports that the lecture was we'll
patronized and was very fine.
The old mill just torn down at
Oakland was built in 1S4S and was a
very busy as we'll as an important
center of commerce for the early
settlers. The Salem News in a refer
ence to it recalls that in 1851 the
river was SO high the water flowed
through the second story
The eighth annual Missouri state
corn show will be held during far
mers' week at the agricultural college,
/ University of Missouri, Columbia,
January 10 to Is. 1911. Everything is
I being done to make this the largest
and best show ever held by the Mis-
souri, corn growers association.
At the recent election the voters OF
Scotland county, Missouri, decided
that the office of county highway engi
neer should be abolished The vote
stood GOT for the office, to 925 against
it The county court had been petit
toned to submit the matter, and the
court had the proposition printed or
the ballots.
At an adjourned meeting on Wed
4 nesday, Dec. IA, the honorable county
court of Clark County, Mo. will EN-
ter on record an order to burn, under
; due legal restrictions, 1927 500 of rail
road funding bonds. This legal con
migration will include the entire is
!. sues of the NJ & NJ and the A. & n
C. bonds.
The grand jury at Fairfield has re
| indicted John D. Cannon of Chicago
on the charge of larceny by embez
element. The prosecuting witness il
the case is Isaac Fryman of Fairfield
who charges Cannon with having EN-
| beZzled the sum of $500 from hin
while settling deal for the Interna
tional Land Co. Cannon was fount
guilty of the charge at the Septem6e
! term of court but the case wa
|, thrown out of court on account of al
I alleged error in the Indictment.
!, The Henry county corn and col
3 show given under the auspices of tn
t Henry County Farmers Institute. re
|, Gently organized, promises to be large
a ly attended by the farmers of Henr
r County, Dec 2-3 1910. Professor Hol
i den. the great expert of Anne
e agricultural college, will be presen
!. and give one of his fine lectures an
). Mrs Mitchell of Des Moines, one @
J. the ablest and most entertainfn
n speakers on all matters pertaining I
V Domestic Science will also be presen
4 ed on the program for lecture.
Score another distinction for "Soa
; Creek" in Davis county. l.
!. Pepper, the newly elected COZ
o gresham from the Second distric
t was born June 10, 1876, on the oil
) John Pepper homestead. four mile
g northwest of Drakeville, Iowa, Davi
Q county, on Soap Creek" He was tn
r youngest of family of nine cnildrer
U He worked on his fathers farm in tn
summer and went to country schoC
q in the winter until n years OF age
n when he entered the Southern low
4 Normal school at Bloomfield. II
!. taught few terms of country schoe
q south of Pulaski, Iowa, and gracua
ed from the Southern Iowa Normal i
;. 1897.
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