The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-17
CITY NEWS.
Choice roasts and poultry, Ma

ley's.
Mrs. II. C. Duncan is conyalesclng
from an attack of tonsilitis.
- Harness, buggies and vehicles OF
all KINDS at lowest prices at Sher-
woods.
Supt. E. C. Lynn announces that
teachers examinations will be held
at the county court house Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday of next week
&C. P. Dadant and his family OF
Hamilton have gone west and will
spend the greater part of the summer
One of the places of interest to be
visited will be Yellowstone park.
There will be services at the
Evangelical Lutheran church at Sum
mitvilie Sunday the 10Th, at 1880 p.
m Rev. c. o. Morland from Madrid,
Iowa, the former pastor of the church,
will deliver the sermon.
Copies of last Sunday Chicago
Tribune containing the excellent two
page article about the Keokuk and.
Hamilton Water Power enterprise are
being sent broadcast over the coun-
try. The article cannot help but be
of decided value to this city.
The Elks last evening Initiated
five candidates and INDUCED IN a
lunch at the close of the lodge work.
A large number of the members took
part in the evenings pleasure. The
Elks have a large membership and
int tn
cupy home of their own.
-Kahoka Courier: MIR. and Mrs.
John Westhafer Barnhart of Omaha,
Neb., have issued invitations to the
marriage of their daughter, Katherine
Eloise, to Rev. Soren Joyce Hedelund,
to take place Wednesday morning,
June %. 1910, at 10 o'clock, at the
church of the Good Shepherd, Omaha.
They will reside at Schuyler, Neb.,
where Rev. Hedelund is pastor of the
Episcopal church He is an old friend
of the editor; was at one time mem
Der of the Fiftieth Iowa band at Keo-
kuk and is known by many in this
city where he has visited
-Montrose Journal: Last Monday
morning while going down the river
in launch we counted thirty-three
men digging shells. They told us
that they were making from three to
twelve dollars a day. Asking one
man whom we knew to be conserva-
tive he said that they averaged about
SO a day for eight hours work, which
| is good wages, but they certainly earn
every cent of it, for handling their
heavy rakes is hard work and then
the heat from the river makes it a
Very uncomfortable place to put in
! the day. In addition some of them
find pearl or slug almost every
week which encourages them in their
work The town is very fortunate in
having this clam bed, as it makes a
4 pay roll of about $500 a week.
&C. j. Harmed. financial secretary
for the American Home Finding Asso-
citation at Ottumwa, has been in the
city for few days soliciting funds
/ Tor the institution. He has issued the
following statement about the insti.
tuition; The American Home Find
ing Association Is organized and in.
corporated under the laws of the
state OF Iowa. Our field of labor is
the entire state. Our business is to
provide carefully selected family
homes for homeless, neglected oil
abused children and youths. The work
OF finding homes for children is Of
sreat Importance. To place them il
proper family homes usually means
tc save them from growing up to {
criminal life. Here is the creates
held OF opportunity offered to men O
means who desire to make invest
ment in the interest of humanity NJ
other means of benefitting the rae,
through money can compare with al
opportunity where the net proceed
OF one thousand dollars will annual,
take one child rom his destitute con
d1tion and prospective criminal lif
and place him in a position of ne,
manent self support, of prospectiy
Industrious life, good citizenship an
probable christian life. The secon
year the money would help another
the third year another and so on unit
by the time the first one helped wa
graduated into useful adult lif.
there would be procession of frol
fifteen to twenty children on the wa
to better life, which procession til
one thousand dollars would keen u
continually. Smaller sums will hel
proportionately and the opportunitie
arising keep the association constan
" pressed for means. We offer sple
did returns on your investment.