The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-31
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Building brick in any quantity at
Keokuk Lumber Company.
The Workman and Allen shows,
which exhibited on Main street last
week, went out Sunday morning over
the T., P. & w. for Peoria, where
they show this week
Masonic: Regular meeting OF
Eagle lodge No. IL A. F. and A. M,
8 o'clock, Tuesday evening, August l,
1911. Visiting brethren fraternally
invited. BY order of the w M. S. H..
Johnston, secretary.
The incoming trains yesterday
brought great crowds Of people to
Keokuk, some attracted by the Buffalo
Bill show, and some by the big dam.
The traffic over the Centerville divis-
ion was particularly heavy. Indeed,
for weeks hundreds of people have
been coming into Keokuk every Sun
day over this line.
The extension workers of the Y.
M. G. A. went down to Wayland last
night and held services in the Meth
odist church of that place. The adj
dress by C. F. Mcfarland was well
received by good sized crowd, while
special music was rendered by the
association quartet. The trip was
made in two automobiles.
/ The fascination Of the rolling
worries is the same to all people. Sun
day morning in a secluded corner OF
the Buffalo Bill show lot Jap, an
| Tn nd
engaged in real American crap
| game at quarter a throw and we're
oblivious to tho world until steadily
gathering crowd around them drove
them to Quieter retreat.
The funeral of the late }. K. Sex
ton occurred Sunday afternoon from
the family home, No. 1914 Des Moines
/ street. A large number OF friends
were present and listened to the
beautiful services conducted by Rev.
John w. Potter of the Trinity NJ. E.
church. The following men served as
/ pallbearers: Messrs. j. C. Blake, H..
/ F. Kruger, Paul Castle, Paul Rich
ardson, ]. N. Dumenil, and T. A. Will
son.
The gang of toughs and conf
dence men who invariably follow in
the wake of big show are on hand
today with the Buffalo Bill aggrega-
ton. These gentry are less in evil
dence than usual, however, the show
/ taking every precaution to protect the
| public from their ravages. Two plain
clothes men are carried who do moth
| ing else but spot these camp follow
ers and bounce them when they show
I'D on the lot The personnel of the
| Bill shows, taken all in all, seems to
be about the cleanest that has hit
Keokuk for long time.
The audience at the First Chris
tan church Sunday morning heard
a very stirring sermon on church ex-
| tension by Rev. John H. Booth of Des
Moines. He presented his subject so
convincingly that a new vision was
obtained of its Importance. He is a
| quick talSer and ready thinker and
| the sermon was such as to impress
permanently an audience as to the
increasing value of church extension,
work that the Disciples have been
pressing for a number of years, and
which is attracting continued wide.
spread interest.
Two grinding molars, weighing
| respectively 8 and 6 pounds, presum
ed to have belonged to some pre-his
toric animal which claimed Iowa as it's
habitat, have been discovered by F.
M. Anderson of Harvey, Iowa, lying
| in the bed of the Des Moines river
two miles north of that town. The
teeth by some are thought to have be-
longed to species Of elephant known
as the hairy elphant," an ANNA,
which roamed Iowa thousands OF
years ago. A jaw bone holding teeth
similar in construction to the ones
found by Mr. Anderson was discover
ed several months ago in a sand pit
at Dennison, Iowa. The geological
curiosities were brought to Des
Moines by Mr.. Anderson
Captain John Ferris is becoming
an ancient mariner, for the gallant
! OLE sailor today is celebrating his
seventy-seventh birthday anniversary
by watching the Buffalo Bill show.
lie was born in Belfast, Ireland, and
came to America in 1854. He has
served many years before the mast
and has gone through all of the ex-
periences of sailor, serving in the
Crimean war, civil war, gone whale
/ and seal hunting, been shanghaied,
been aro',nd the world several times
and still feels young and spry. He
figures on living about twenty years
more. His father lived to be "a and
/ his mother sc. He has as many
| friends as there are sharks in the
! sea and all of them will join in wish
ing him many more birthday anniver-
saries and a long life of contentment
and ease.
"A number of prominent citizens
who are working in season and out
of season for the advancement of
Keokuk recently have expressed
themselves as actually ashamed of
the condition Of many of the streets
of the city, and of some of the va
rant Lotto -yhiob front ~, 80, :, =. :,