The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-05
CITY NEWS.
books at Englehardt & Co.
Its time to figure ON your winter

! Its time to figure on your winter
coal bill.
] You can buy buggy at cost at
/ Sherwood's, To3 Main.
There will be services in the Mel
/ rose NJ. g. church next Sunday. DR..
/ Barnes of Keokuk will preach.
/ See Wabash Home Visitors ad.
Charles Van Sittert Is numbered
among the sick and confined to his
| home.
The school bells were in use to-
day after a three months silence.
old school books bought and sold
at Englehardt & Co., 900 Main st.
The death of Miss Sadie Sawyer,
a niece of Mrs Thomas F. McManus,
of Keoklk, occurred at the home of
her grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Riley,
at Barring, Mo-, yesterday.
Another timely rain has advanced
the crop prospects in this locality and
the farmers are naturally feeling fine.
The crops got out OF a close place
this year.
Mr.. and Mrs A. P. Haley, Of
l SlGCtOu, WIZ HAVE DcSu flSitlnE III
st. Louis for few weeks, will ar
rive in Keokuk next Friday and visit
/ with Keokplk relatives and friends.
Regular meeting Morning Star
lodge No. 5. Knights of Pythias to-
night at 500 o'clock at Castle hail.
Fifth and Blondeau. Visiting Knights
Invited. G. c. Koepf, c. c.
The Independent Order of Owls
are putting up some very fine posters
advertising the free fall celebration
! to be held here the first week in Oc-
tober. The poster is in red and sever
al fine views OF the water power are
printed. 1t is very attractive adj
vertising sheet.
Master Edward Reichmann, Jr.,
and Master Reynolds made quite hit
during the Labor day parade yester-
! day as they carried a streamer at
tached to the bakers banner. The
two lads were cheered roundly when
/ ever they appeared in font OF
crowd.
The Iowa Equal Suffrage Associa-
ton will hold its fortieth annual state
convention in the city of Perry, Dali
i las county, Iowa, October 10, II and
IL. Harriet Belvel Evans, of Corydon
is the president Keoklk people who
are interested have been advised Of
the convention dates.
| One of the needs of Rand Park
when 1t is improved, is an enclosed
pavilion, where audiences. picnic par
ties and others observing public &C.
casions can go in case of bad weather.
Had such pavilion, with ample room
4 been constructed for use in the park,
the exercises there yesterday would
not have been discontinued.
| -Keokuk never had such an oppor-
tunity as Is offered by Mr.. ]. E. Ba-
ker The arrangement made by Mr..
Baker to have Madame Nordica open
1 her American concert tour in this city
! is unprecedented in the line of musical
events and there should be no Difficult
/ ty In disposing Of every seat in the
opera house.
4 Subscribers to The Gate City are
urged to notify this Office before 6
o'clock each evening if the paper
fails to reach them. If an inferior
4 service is given it can only be cor
rected by the business Office having
such information. Be sure and report
all failures to receive the paper and
unsatisfactory service. With the in
formation in possession of the office
the circulation department can cor
rect the complaints.
An information charging John
Mitchell with robbing Arthur Jones
of five dollars in paper money was
filed In the Justice court of James s.
Burrows today. Both are negroes.
Both men gave evidence of 1truggle,
which is said to have occurred near
the bending works last night. Jones'
| rocket was cut from his trousers,
while Mitchell has been hacked about
| the head with sharp rock In the
| Justice court OF John LeindeclSer Will
liam Avery, a clam digger, filed infor-
nation against Dora Robson, charg.
| ing the theft of $40 in currency and
a pearl valued at SIS from his per
son. A change of venue has been
taken to Burrows court.
The Iowa weather and crop bulle.
tin for the week ending September 3
| has Just been issued as follows: An
other week with practically no rain
has been added to the record Of this
abnormal season. Only few light
and widely scattered showers occur
red, the amounts Of rainfall being gen
orally less than a tenth of an inch,
| and in many localities did not exceed
a trace while in other places there
was no rain. The first part of the
1 week was very cool, but the latter
half was unusually warm. A trace of
frost was observed on low ground in
many localities in the northern half
of the state on August 28th and 29th,
but no damage was done. Last year
the first light frost occurred on
August 2eth and in 1909, on August
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