The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-26
HAMILTON ITEMS
OF INTEREST.
events Of the Past Week That Have
Happened Al the City on
TIE Opposite End of
the Dam.
BOILER FOR TILE WORKS
Boiler for the New Tile ~osks Has
arriyed-8sthsI Church Re
frescoed-sne Visiting
List

The big boiler Tor the Hamilton
Clay Manufacturing company has
rived and attracted a great deal Of
attention as II rested near the ds9oE
The boiler weighs thirteen tons and
generates 15c horsepower Il vas
made TO order as will be nearly al OF I
tie machinery that the coGmpany VIII Z
use
Because OF the great weight Ct the
boiler the bridge just below the DEPOT {
viii have TO he strengthened. This /
work viii be done al once so aa 10 +
not delay the setting of the boilers at +
the clay works The company are
building their kilns and dry sheds and /
clearing the top dirt of OF t clay /
They expect to begin making tile
about the middle CT August and viii
employ between fifty and sixty Een.
Mr. OHarra stated to Gate City rep
resentatiye Friday that they expected
to keep the plant running on full time
as soon as they start, as they had
never been able to supply the demand
for drain tile in their old location and
that this was new field in which to
work.
The newspaper notoriety given to
the globe trotters who seem to be I'll
headed for this section of the country
melted a Hamilton colored boy to try
to do likewise. He had been brought
by his grandfather from Georgia to
Hamilton that he might take advan-
tage of the school system OF the north
but the boy did not like the northern
society His grandfather would not
agree to his going back so he started
on the long tramp to Hope, Georgia,
and expects to become eolored Wes-
| ton.
! The congregation of the Bethel
church will not mind the heat as they
listen to the services, as the church
has been refrescoed in cool looking
green The work was done by Artist
johnson of Burlington and gives the
church an appearance that would be
credit to much larger congregation.
The wainscoating is in a dark shade
| OF green that fades off into a
Tighter shade on the walls. The cell
ing is in light brown with green
border along the beams and the edges
iof the beams are gilded. The colors
give the church very pretty and at
Itractive appearance.
Schilson Brothers, local threshers
are expecting a new Garr-Sco.t sepa
. rator that they will use this fall. The
oat crop of Illinois is heavy and they
sxpect to be kept busy.
One of the prettiest weddings O
the year was the Lane-Holmes nup
tails which occurred last Wednesday
at the home of Mr. and Mrs H. c
Dadant The ceremony was performed
by Rev. Nelson Hall of the Bethe
church and the ring ceremony was
used The newly welded couple viii
, live at 1920 Timea street. Keokuk
/, The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. L. H. Holmes and has beei
a resident Of Hamilton since child
hood She was graduate of tn
Hamilton high school and for the pas
few years has served as cashier il
the Parker store
The groom is also resident 0
hamilton and is the son Of Mrs. Lizzi
Lane. He is employed as a salesman
by the KelloggBirge company Il
Keokuk
The little child OF Mr.. and Mrs. Her
ry Swa9tz died last Tuesday Of pois
oning. The little one secured som
tablets that we're being used by som
one of tire family for rheumatism an
took some Of them The child wa
seized with commissions and died 500
after the arrival OF the doctor TIL
little one was eleven months old an
was an only child
Mr. and Mrs. James Chambers. G
Prairie CRY, H.; Mr.. and Mrs. Fran
Chambers. Beardstown, H.; Mr.. an
Mrs. Edgar Chambers of Galesburt
visited the first part Of the week q
the aome of Sir. and Mrs. W.
Bridges
: Mrs. John yozt, formerly Miss Ii
Han Tyrell arrived in the cit. Fl
day from Boise, Idaho for Wis
with her mother
MISS Francis Parsons spent Sunda
at the home Of Rev John Woods
Bentley.
Editor w. II Harkrader Of the Har
ilton Press has a very sick baby
his home.
Will White Of Sugar Creek was Vi
ting TIC last of the week at the hon
of his parents In Hamilton.
Mr.. Mike oBrien il very Ill at Il
home OF his con. Cttarleg on Eel