The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-22
CITY NEWS.
Smoke Diploma Grande Cigar.

Smoke Diploma Grande Cigar.
Sherwood is selling fly nets at re-
duced prices.
Gate City Camp, No. 81, w. o. W.,
meets tonight at Hawkes. hall A full
attendance is urged, as business of inn
portance will come up.
William E. Boudewyns and wife
have conveyed to j. B. Van Pappelen-
dam the east thirty-six feet of lot 8,
block II. The property is on Des
Moines between Fourth and Fifth.
Regular meeting Morning Star
lodge No. 5, Knights of Pythias to-
night at 500 O'clock at Castle hall,
Fifth and Blondeau. Visiting Knights
invited. G. c. Koepf, C. C.
Fly nets selling at reduced prices
at Sherwoods'.
Let US fill your coal bins with
good coal. Williams & Reeves, S26
Main. Bell phone, los Red.
Carl Weigner who is visiting in
Indiana and Kentucky, sends two post
cards of Elks homes at Evansville,
Ind, and at Henderson, Ky. They are
fine looking buildings. Within anoth.
er year Keokuk will be able to send
broadcast post cards of the local Elks
home.
Quincy Wing: Through the Keo-
kuk Gate City we learn of the death
in Keokuk Saturday night of William
S. Sample. He was well known in
Quincy, where he used to come dur.
ing race meets several years ago. He
was secretary of the Keokuk Fair
association at the time the Baldwins
made their famous parachute jumps
in Keokuk about twenty-five years
ago, lighting in the Mississippi river.
He was also at one time chief Of the
fire department there, and being sue
ceeded by John Anderson. Mr.. SAM
pie was gentleman in every sense
of the word, and one of the most en-
thusiastic advocates of the Keokuk
water power that the city ever had.
Even when it looked mighty bad for
the success of the proposition, Mr..
Sample always spoke in an optimistic
vein, and was never known to say a
word that could be considered as
running down his home town. He
was one of the original boosters of
here that we are genuinely sorry that
he is dead.
The Iowa weather and crop bull
letin fer the week ending August 20
t,o i've haa Tr1l TIL a
past week was hot and generally dry;
the average daily excess of tempera-
ture being about 4 degrees, and the
rainfall was much below the normal
except over the northeastern coun-
ties and in some localities in Adair,
Adams, Cass, Clarke, Ringgold and
Union counties where copious to
heavy showers occurred The maxi.
mum temperatures On the 18th rang
ed from 9S to los degrees over the
southern district, but for the state as
whole, the conditions were favorable
for all late crops. Except some To-
calities in southern and southwestern
counties, corn, late potatoes, grass and
apples made considerable improve
ment under the effect Of light local
showers during the week and the
copious to heavy rains of the preced-
ing week Much of the early planted
corn is beginning to dent and the late
corn is in the roasting ear stage, and
most of it is doing we'll. Even in the
dry districts, occasional light show.
ers have checked the deterioration OF
corn. Pastures and late potatoes have
made a decided improvement over
the northern and southern dis
tricts and now affords considerable
1 feed Threshing has been resumed ii
the northeastern counties and much
fall blowing has been done.