The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-05
CITY NEWS.

Dollar day tomorrow: waists and
h tub skirts worth So to So. Lowitz's.
Lunch tongue at Immegart's.
Nice spring chickens at Markley's.
Smoke Mothers Silver Ash cigar
Let Sherwood repair your har-
ness.
Buy harness now while the price
! is low. Sherwood.
Order chickens for Sunday dinner
at Malone's, sos Main street
Choice spring chickens at Joe
Haubert's, To9 Main street.
Read Centrals specials on under
wear for tomorrow only, page s.
&C. C. Boggs, White sewing ma.
chine agent, now at ia Main street.
Masqueria Sisters, the original
street singers, at the Air Dome to-
night.
Nothing reserved. All mems and
boys suits included in Ewers-Mc-
Carthy's 20 per cent reduction sale.
Wanted-Fifty quarrymen and la
borers ct Burlington Quarry Co.'S
stone crusher, Montrose. Good board
ing house at works.
Puckechetuck lodge No. IS, meets
every Friday evening at 5 o'clock.
Work in the third degree. ]. L. Candy,
y. G. George Immegart. Secretary.
Yesterday seventy-two car loads
OF dirt was stripped from the water
power company's quarry across the
river, this being record since the
60 fnH >. 81,
Their excavation for the dam until
the company is ready to put in the
concrete
TO distinguish the orchestra seats
from the seats in the rear at the
Air Dome, two posts have been ar
ranged on each side of the aisles and
small red, incandescent lamps will be
! placed on the top of each SO that thofe
coming late will know where their
seating is in the big open air theatre
Julie Benjamin, secretary of the
Association for the Aid OF Crippled
Children of New York City, has writ
ten to Fred Korschgen, superinten-
dent of the poor, inquiring what is
being done in Keokuk for children
under this heading. There is no or
ganization in Keokuk and the only
thing being done here is at the insti-
cation Of Mr.. Korschgen himself.
| The secretary asks Mr.. Korschgen
to correspond with her.
The steamer Dubuque finally
worked off the bar where she spent
| the night and arrived at the local port
yesterday afternoon. The govern
ment steamer Grace placed a barge
at the landing OF the White Collar
Line freight house and over this sec
| ton of the pontoon' bridge the passen-
gers and freight were landed The
big boat then went on up to Burling-
ton and is expected to come back to
/ Keokuk some time today.
William Jennings Bryan was
passenger on N. IL going south this
morning but there was no crowd at
the depot to meet and cheer the ex-
4 democratic leader, In fact there was
no one at the depot to greet him and
none of his followers in the city seem
ed to be aware of his passing through
In contrast to this several years ag
1t would have taken the full police
force to keep the public from being
run over by his train in their eager
ness to see the then famous man,
Such is the hero worship OF the Ameri
can people.
Several hundred colored people
in delegations from all over south
eastern Iowa met In Fort Madison
yesterday for the celebration of the
anniversary OF emancipation day The
exercises we're held at Peake's
Amusement park and included bar
5ec1e. speaking and music. The Rev.
" ! c. Reid Of Ottumwa, president OF
I9wa Afro-Anerican council, deliver
Fl the principal address. Former
Congressman Murray Of South Caro-
linz spoke ~ the subject OF ideals
of the race. The Buxton brass band
Of sixteen pisces, accompanied by a
Delegation from Buxton, was present.
4 number Of Keoknk coiored people
Herc In attendance.
Quincy Journal. The steamer
keokGk came dawn this morning
With the news that the boat passed
the Dsbtaue at Canton. Capt. Dippel
says that while the river fs low, there
is fair depth Of water In the channel
RE stafes there III no truth in the
statement made In the morning Whfg
tnat the Keokuk dragged on the bot.
tom most Of the way down yesterday
The only bad place In the channel is
near Hogback Island, where a reef
has formed. The Dubuque was stuck
ON this reef all last night, and the
Keokuk rubbed It this morning. II
the river goes several inches lower
this reef may block the channel at
that point. 1t 10 possible though that
IL will be cut down before that fin,