The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-29
CITY NEWS.

Smoke Diploma Grande Cigar.
Let us repair your harness. Sher-
wood, 7o3 Main street.
Fear Of frost will be enter
tanned until after the crops are safe.
Thursday evening the big special
edition of The Gate City will be Is
sued
Roy King was in Elgin when the
grand stand collapsed and was an oc-
cupant of the stand but fortunately
escaped without injury.
III ou buy harness at Sherwood's
you'll save money.
The two government steamers.
Lieutenant Guerney and Lieutenant
Augustin, passed down the river at 2
o'clock Monday afternoon.
DR. Frederick A. Cook, the north
pole explorer will be in Keokuk on
Friday evening, September 18th, G.
w. Baker, advance man for the lee
turer having made arrangements yes
terday with the First Baptist church
to give an address here.
The fire last Saturday night was
not in the Talbot elevator as reported
but some distance from the building,
and was refuse from the dust house
which the employees Of the elevator
had been trying to burn Saturday. The
elevator was in no danger at any
time.
Sunday afternoon, Frank Ketterer,
the well known dairyman, entertained
a number Of his friends at his home
on the johnson street road at fish
fry. One Of the pastimes of the after
noon was ball game. The guests OF
Mr.. Ketterer departed soon after the
supper hour after having had fine
time.
Edward Black, held to the grand
jury for malicious destruction of prop
erty, was released from the county
jail on his own reconizance yesterday.
Black is the man who took out an
automobile from the Water Power
company garage one night some time
ago and damaged it by running into
the curbing in front of the Royal
Hotel
Chair cars are being used on all
"K'' line and K. & w. trains now.
The equipment which is being given
the patrons of the local lines of the
Burlington is improving with the
months No. IS. the St. Louis-St. Paul
evening train which runs through
Keokuk at 1885 is an example of the
betterment of service and No. IL, the
south bound morning train at $50
is twin of No. Is.
of speeding Keokuk motor cycl-
lists in Quincy Sunday the Herald
says: Yesterday several motor cycl-
lists from Keokuk visited Quincy. They
evidently have no streets that permit
speeding in Keokuk. Or they were I'M
aware that this city has speed limit.
They tried to see the whole town in
one afternoon and tore down the
streets as fast as their machines could
travel, endangering those coming
along side streets.
1 The weather crop bulletin for
Iowa for the week ending August ~,
! has Just been issued as follows: The
| week was cool and unusually dry;
/ only a few light and widely scattered
showers occurred. In many localities
over the western and southern coun-
! ties no rain fell during the week, and
I in those sections the drought is still
serious In the northeastern district
the rainfall was more copious, and
practically all crops are in excellent
condition, but considerable small
grain in shock has been damaged by
| the continuous wet weather during
the past five weeks. In other sections
of the state corn on light or rolling
ground is dying very rapidly and
some of it is already being cut. RI
ports made on August 25th by the
correspondents of this service show
that the average condition Of corn
was IS per cent, or gain of points
since August 1st With normal wealth
er conditions about 65 per cent of the
crop will be safe from frost on Sep
TENDER 18th; so per cent on Septem-
Der 25th; 90 per cent on September
e
3oth, and practically all of 1t by 'Oc-
! tober 10th The average condition OF
late potatoes on August 25th was 81
per cent, or an improvement OF 20
points since August 1st. In many To-
caIities in western and southern coun-
ties farmers are feeding their stock
green corn on account Of no pastur-
age. Much more than the usual
amount of corn will be cut and saved
as a substitute for hay. Fall blowing
is progressing in sections where suf-
ficient rain has fallen to soften the
ground. In other sections that work
has been suspended. Apples, plums,
peaches and grape crops are larger
than usual A summary Of the late
reports from threshers show the aver
age yield of small grain to be as fol