The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-11
CITY NEWS.
Smoke Power City Cigar.
If your harness is repaired

Smoke Power City Cigar.
If your harness is repaired at
Sherwood,s it will be all right
Quincy came near having an ice
famine last Saturday, according to re-
ports emanating from there. A st.
Louis firm having the contract for
the Illinois city's supply OF frozen
commodity being unable to fill the
bill for day or two and as a result,
Quincyites in many instances nearly
suffocated with hot dinners and warm
soda pop. Keokuk has number OF
big ice houses here and although the
price leaped up from % to 40 cents a
hundred pounds when one of the firms
moved away. there is no danger of
this city's going without Ice this sum
mer, as more was harvested during
the past winter than in several sea.
sons previous.
Another car of furnaces Just re-
ceived, don't fail to look at our line
before buying a furnace. Weber
Kirch Mfg. Co.
New buggies Just in at Sherwood's
-703 Main street.
1t Is expected that within few
days the Stone & Webster people will
have engineers in the city who will
take UP the work of investigating the
local street railway conditions with a
view of improving them. 1t Is expect
! ed that some changes for the better
Io,> - ito
will be adopted.
Read The Daily Gate City.
-Keokuk's street cars always wait
at the boat landing and evidently give
much better service than the up-to-
date pay-as-you-enter cars of Quincy,
according to the following from one
4, of the papers there: Several people
who attended the South Side Boat
club excursion to Keokuk yesterday
called up The Herald today and claim.
ed that they suffered great inconven-
fence from the fact that when they
arrived in Quincy at 1920 last night
they found only one car, and that OF
the P. A. 7. E. type in waiting on the
Front street line.
st. Mary's lawn social tomorrow
evening at the Seibert residence, 727
Exchange
The late Dennis Harrington was
! inferred in Oakland cemetery this at
| ternoon at 3 o'clock Those who as
sisted as body bearers were: Peter
and Daniel Roam, George West, Harry
| Van Ausdall, Daniel Harrington and
James Magner.
-Woodmen of the World meets to
night at Hawkes. hall A lunch will
be provided.
This afternoon at 2 O'Clock, funer
| al services for the late Charles Rob
! inson were conducted by the Rev
| Harry B. Foster, pastor of the Unit
ed Presbyterian church, at the famil,
residence, 10S South Tenth street A
large number of friends, both old ant
young, of the deceased young man
were in attendance at the services.
The Iowa weather crop bulletin
/ for the week ending July 9, is as fol
lows: Excessively high temperature
and bright sunshine prevailed during
! the first half of the week, the heated
! period eliminating in maximum tenn
peratures considerably above 100 de
grees; the highest temperature re
ported being III degrees in the south
eastern counties While showers oc
Cured over the larger part of the
state on the night of the 9Th, the
drouth remains practically unbroken
The showers afforded temporary relic
in narrow belts and spots, GOVERNS
probably three-fourth of the state
and few localities reported rair
sufficient for present needs, but oyel
the bulk of the state he amount va:
too light to give lateral benefit
Most of the I'm Is till holding it!
own remarkably well, but some of the
earliest planted, especially In the
southern counties, has been seriously
injured and if rain does not come soor
the crop in those sections, will BIZ
light Haying and small grain harves
have progressed rapidly under favor
able conditions Thrashing has be
gun and early reports Indicate {
good quality and fairly good yield o
winter wheat. The yield of oats varies
from fifteen to thirty-fve bushels
The hay crop will average between
one-half and three-fourths ton pc
acre. Pastures afford but little feed
and IN many localities hay is b2inl
fed to stock. Potatoes and gardel
truck show serious damage. WE'LL
are failing and water for stock is get
ing scorce.
Outfelder Blake, who played TO
several weeks with Keokuk, has beel
signed by Canton, H., in the In
!, league and left for that place on tn