The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-07
CITY NEWS.

Visit keokuk'S Dig AIT Dome 10
night.
-Tonight's the night Colonial the
alter beautiful.
Air Dome, the place where the
crowd goes. Big bill tonight
-Tommorow King Edwards Flu
neral Colonial theater beautiful.
/, Its the amusement place
kuks Air Dome. Vaudeville, songs
and pictures.
At the meeting tonight OF Morn
ing Star lodge No. s, Knights OF
Pythias, there will be work in the
knight rank.
The Unitarian Sunday school pic
mic to Wild Cat Springs will be given
tomorrow. The excursion cars will
leave at and 10 o'clock.
The concert to be- given Thursday
evening at the Baptist church by Miss
Culver and Mr.. Farmer, will COM
mence at SIS o'clock. Tickets are
on sale at LeBron's jewelry store at
| 10 cents each.
The steamer Grace went south
yesterday with two more Of the Vicks-
burg barges. The rest, eight in num-
Der, will be lowed down by the COM
mission steamer, Arthur Hider, and
placed in the government work on the
lower river.
"a Child of the Ghetto" the lat
est biograrh. Colonial theater beauti-
full
-Masonic-Sp meeting Hardin
Lodge, No. 20, A. F. & A. NJ. tomorrow
evening at o'clock Work in the
third degree. Visiting and Eagle
/ Lodge No. IL, members fraternally in
yited to attend. BY order of the w.
M. C. NJ Vogler, secretary.
"A report Of the finance commit
tee of the Keokuk Motto Boat club
will be made at meeting of that spe-
cially appointed body this evening. A
line on how mucS money has been OBJ
tanned through solicitation will be got
ten today and the report made to-
night.
,--Joe Samuels, a timer, while work
/ ing at Eighth and Des Moines streets
yesterday afternoon about o'clock,
fell from a scaffold and was quite bad
ly bruised up, although no bones were
broken. He fell nearly sixteen feet,
striking his shoulder and the back of
his head. He will be unable to re-
sumo work for several days.
Group Eight of the Illinois Bank
ers' association is in convention in
Carthage today. They will tour from
Carthage to Hamilton in automobiles
this afternoon for the purpose of pay
ing visit to the dam site and inspect
ing the work for their own interest.
The convention is to be a big one.
Judge William Logan of this city will
speak.
The steamer Sidney leaves st.
Louis today on the first trip of the
through boats and will arrive in the
local port about noon tomorrow 1t
was found advisable to send the Sid
ney out first In place of the Quincy
because of the low stage of the river
The Diamond 10 boat house is being
repaired and a new roof put on and
preparations made for big season.
Don't overlook Sherwood's ele-
CANT line of buggies. FOB Main street.
The secretary Of the State Horti-
cultural society reports the condition
of fruit on May 1st, as follows:
plums and peaches, less than / per
cent; cherries, per cent; grapes, 20
per cent: black raspberries, 10 per
cent; red raspberries, IL per cent;
blackbhrries, 81 per cent; currants, 5
per cent; gooseberries, per cent;
| strawberries, SO per cent of a full
crop. The average for May is only
| 8 per cent of full crop. This is
the lowest percentage ever estimated
| for May on the condition of the corp
in this state. The bloom on tree
fruits was three weeks In advance of
normal; two weeks earlier than any
record we have since the society was
organized.
The latest biograph tonight. Co
/ lonial theater beautiful.