The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-09
CITY NEWS.
Spring chickens at Haubert's.
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City letter carrier j. G. Thomp-
son is taking vacation.
Call on Ed Walsmith for choice
meats. 1926 Fulton. Bell Phone 1904.
DR.. ]. w. How'd who has been
1 Ill for several days, is again able to
/ be about.
Money saved when you buy har-
ness, harness supplies, and buggies
at Snerwoods'. 703 Main.
B. F. Grow has transferred to
Allen B. Grow, his son, a strip of
property on Belknap Boulevard.
Edna Refear, operate soprano
singer, at the Big Air Dome tonight.
MIR. and Mrs. Lewis Sigmund of
Hamilton are the proud parents of
baby girl, born this morning.
Davis & Dooley, travesty coined
ians. In the comedy playlet, Nearly
an Actor at the Air Dome tonight.
Mr.. and Mrs N w Hubinger.
Jr.. of S22 Blondeau street, are re-
| joicing over the arrival OF new born
son, born Sunday
Thomas John has conveyed to JOS
eph Carwalho lot 5, block 127. The
property is on High between Eighth
and Ninth streets. and includes the
former homestead of Mr.. John.
Several local hunters are begin
ming to get out their flint locks to go
squirrel hunting next month when the
game laws says it is permissible to
shoot that kind of game.
The section men will likely have
completed the laying of the new ninety
pound rails between this city and Bur
lington on the @ by the first of Octo-
Der. The crews are working we'll UP
toward Burlington now and the weeks
will soon slip by when this work will
have been completed and the road bed
one of the best to be found in the
country.
The body Of the late Mrs . ames
II. Anderson arrived this morning
from the south at 7:35 and at 2:3O
o'clock this afternoon, impressive
funeral rites were conducted at the
First Unitarian church for the late
citizen, by the Rev. Rowena Morse.
! The following gentlemen assisted as
body bearers: Asaph Buck, Hugh
Hodge, A. ]. Dimond. s. w. Moor
head, George Hassall and A. Holdings
! worth Interment was made in the
family lot In Oakland cemetery.
The vacation season is at it's
height just now. Each day sees the
union depot here crowded with local
tourists who are going and the num-
bers there gives one at first sight an
impression Of the Chicago train she'd
Perhaps the heaviest trains out of here
during the day are the south bound @
TAT $40 each morning and the north
bound K line train at 1:55 in the after
noon. Excellent st. Louis and Chica-
go connections are made this way.
4 This month the Wabash railroads ex-
icursion to Niagra Falls will be more
popular than ever and large number
Eof local people will likely take advan-
tage Of the reduced rates.
That the Santa Te has started
campaign after trainmen who are
| said to be allowing hoboes to ride on
/ trains in return for a small remit
/ lance is the latest source of gossip
/ for trainmen. 1t is said that
within the past few days two or three
/ brakemen in the west have been Civ
en- their discharge papers and that
several others have reason for quak-
i ing In the knees. 1t is rumored that
/ there has been considerable amount
| of tramp traffic in this locality that
could have been prevented, but that
i trainmen by being slipped" dollar
or SO would forget to bounce them off.
/ This proceeding is said to have start
ed a rigid looking into by officials
/ which may result in many dismissals.
! 1t is generally understood among
many of the men that there is to be
most rigid cleaning out of men who
!, have been allowing the box car tour
list to ride.
-Des Moines Register and Leader:
1.-The Mississippi river is the lowest
it has been In the memory Of old riv-
er men, said E. ]. Hammond, who
! has recently returned from Burlington,
/ Iowa 81 was told last week while In
| Burlington that some OF the small
river packet steamboats, had been
] forced to remain idle because the riv-
1 or is not navigable In many places be-
! tween Burlington and Davenport At
one place between Burlington and
i Fort Madison, just above Polk Island,
4 the water is less than five feet deep
/ in the channel. None Of the larger
river steamboats, are running. Trans
/ portation and traffic is at standstill
on the upper river. Old river men
F say that the water is nearly a foot
/ lower than it was back in the sixties,
4 when it was thought that the water
would never go lower. I believe that
/ the time is coming when rivers viii
4 dry UP and there will be no water
/ When that time comes the world will
/ burn UP as told in the Bible Men
/ who have spent their lives on the riv-
/ er say that each year the water is
| gradually failing to reach the depth
of the previous year in the high water
season. When | see the Mississippi
river so shallow during the summer