The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-12
CITY NEWS.
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| be held this evening.
Don't miss A. o. U. w. dance
Wednesday evening, Sept. IA. at
Hawkes. hall. Agnes orchestra.
Fur, plush and wool lap robes,
/ Just in at Sherwoods.
"A marriage license was issued to-
day to DR.. Frank R. Fielding of
of Keokuk.
For change today all of the
local bound passenger trains arrived
on time, something that has not hap
/ pened for the past two weeks.
The Woman's Guild of Graham
hospital will meet at the nurses home
tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon, at 3
o'clock. Election of officers. Come
/ prepared to sew.
The interior of the First Chris
tan church has been decidedly I'M
| proved by the addition of new car
pet. painting and papering. 1t is now
| one of the prettiest interiors in the
] city
The present stage of the river is
g, fall of 2 since Saturday The
Missouri and Ohio rivers have been
rising slowly for the past week and
are expected to reach the normal
stage in few days, thus permitting
navigation.
Nearly all of the government
| dredges along the river have quit
work, owing to the stage of the riv-
er. Most of them will remain in their
present positions to be ready for work
In the event that low water neces-
states deeper channel.
The two new homes being erect
ed by Asaph Buck at the corner Of
Ninth and Franklin streets are very
near completion and prove to be a
handsome Improvement to that local
altty. They are modern and pretty
dwellings and credit to the city.
Dexter l. Cooper, in charge OF
construction work on the dam across
the river, has returned home from a
business trip to Chicago in the inter
est of the Water Power Co. While
there he looked at considerable ma
chinery which will likely be purchased
this fall.
1t was stated yesterday that a
new aviator had appeared in st. Louis
by the name of J. w Mccarthy from
Chicago, who las rented a place in
the aviation field and will attempt to
make fight near st. Louis. AS to
his experience as an aviator he is not
known by the aeronauts.
-Nauvoo Independent: F. L..
Griffey and Frank Swan and
ladies, of Keokuk, were in the city
yesterday, coming in an auto Mr..
/ Swan Is former Nauvoo boy and this
was his first visit in a long time.
Messrs. Grfffey & Swan have the con.
tract for the erection of new church
at Carthage. new school house at
Colusa and the new l. o. o. F. han
at Hamilton.
1t has been stated by the farmers
of Perry county, Mo, that the bottom
lands are infested by grasshoppers In
countless millions which are deyour-
ing their crops. Never before have
the farmers witnessed a grass hopper
: plague. They enter a field of growing
corn or anything In the vegetation
line and in short time every blade
has been devoured. Opinion is divid
ed as to whether they will be able to
fly across the Mississippi and enter
Illinois.
"A party Of government engineers
on board the Gardie Eastman are
making the trip up the Mississippi
securing data of this river at the low
stage. They take soundings every
few miles and also register the
strength Of the. current, in which way
1t is easily determined the volume oil
water which passes in given length
of time. The Eastman will go as fal
north as the stage of the river viii
permit. AS the raft boats have hat
no trouble In the north, it is likely the
Eastman will reach st. Paul
Twenty young men friends o.
Heman T. Powers, who recently re
signed as boys secretary of the
Young Mems Christian Association
, and now Of Winona Lake, md, have
sent the former "Y" man handsome
watch fob as an appreciation of friend
!, ship and as souvenir of the higl
esteem in which he was held here
On the diverse side of the gold pend
ant of the fob is the Y M. c. A. in
sigma, the Roman insignia .X p
and the triangle of the association II
the center, on the reverse side Of The
pennant is an inscription From
Hemie's Boys The remembrance
. was sent with a letter from thu
boys" and the gift will no doubt b.
: received with many pleasant mem
. cries of the work Mr.. Powers was en-
gagged in here
The other day in Keokuk strang
: er passed several worthless cheeks
on two local coal dealers anc llket
away with an even $29 He signed
the checks Henry Stern. Yesterda!
in Quincy a man signing Henry snyd