The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-25
AMONG OUR NEleHRoRs.

number of Milton business men
nave organized Booster club TO
promote local interests.
The clothing factory at Farming
ton formerly operated by the Stirling
Wooden Mills Co., has been re-opened
by NJ. l.. Oberndorf & Co of Chicago.
The new firm has twenty-five persons
at work and have advertised for OPP
orators and hope to have one hun
dred and twenty-five at work soon.
Mayor Brainerd of Memphis has
appointed the following gentlemen to
represent that place at the Lakes
to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway convention
to be held in st. Louis today and
tomorrow: William L. Scott, DR.. A.
E. Platter, Judge n. NJ. Pettingill.
William E. Cone, w. B. McLane, G..
E. Leslie, R. NJ. Barnes, L. P. Roberts
and j v Bumbarger. Mayor Brain
erd, by virtue of his Office, is also
delegate.
A year ago last September certain
persons in Memphis, Mo-, in imitation
of Carrie Nation, smashed a num-
Der of places where liquor was sold
Suit was brought against the alleged
leaders by an organization known as
the Deucalion club. The case was
transferred to Lancaster in Schuyler
county on change of venue and has
just been tried in Judge Shelton S
court. After being out about ten
minutes the jury brought in a verdict
for the defendants.
What is considered the highest
temperature on record where the fe-
YER has not resulted fatally, is that
of Miss Eta Martin of Centerville.
The fever is so high that the bulbs
of three thermometers placed be-
meath her tongue by the physicians
burst after the mercury had register
ed the highest figure. One of the in
struments was graduated to ITO de-
grees. 1t Is thought by physicians
that the young woman's temperature
is at least ZIG degrees.
Jaspes Blines isn't especially en-
amored OF the idea OF improving the
Des Moines river SO as to make it
navigable Not to put too fine point
on the matter, Mr.. Blines knocks"
on the proposition with all the wealth
Of language at his command In a let
ter to the Kahoka Gazette-Herald he
reports that on last Friday quite a
company OF men arrived at the f. f.
Hill farm, unloaded large amount
Of baggage and supplies and camp
equipage, and went to work putting
up five large tents wherein the com
pany viii be housed while not
duty in their field work. The party
is composed of civil engineers and
Neir assistants, who are employed
by the United States authorities in
making a survey of the Des Moines
river, in view of ascertaining the
navigable qualifications OF this
stream Noting these things, Mr..
Blines was moved to write
"A few hundred congressman and
several dozen editors in Iowa and
Missouri have for years talked OF
deep waterways for western transport
tation, and among their freak pets Is
tit ii'5Hty LED ilHtI WhcoS
average stage of water for seven
months ranges from six inches on up
as high as fifteen. Having nothing
else 10 employ their time, the law
makers in Washington attacked the
Des Moines. and they set up their
hoodoo idol and tell the people that
the good old days OF the keel boat
and log RATS on the Des Molnes will
return with rush. Perhaps the
lynch pin wagon. the spinning wheel
and going 10 mill on horseback, with
| a rock to balance the grist, all these
will be invited to return
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