The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-31
CITY NEWS.
Very carefully read Ayres' ad.
Cheer up. Football season opens

Cheer up. Football season opens
soon.
Hobbs will give your insurance
special attention, % n 5th
Gate City want advertisements
gets results.
Mango chutney at Immes,ar. 5.
Henry Reichmann has received
from a friend copy of the New York
Observer of the date of June Is, 1854.
The paper is an interesting one.
New wall paper patterns at Lem
ing's, 904 Main. Bell phone.
Labor day outing trip to Nauvoo
and Fort Madison. Steamer Black
Hawk leaves at a. m. One fare for,
round trip. Bell phone 264
New fall dress goods now on dis
play at the Central Store.
This season has been a record
breaker for excursion business, many
thousands coming to Keokuk to see
the work on the big dam
100 pairs boys all solid school
shoes, 50 values, special price, 81 so
Miller.
"A number OF Keokuk people are
attending the Clark County Fair at
Kahola today. A special train of six
coaches left here today at 1890
noon for Kahoka over the K. & w.
For your insurance, see Hobbs.
When you get an inquiry about
keolzrk and do not possess all of the
information turn the correspondence
over to the secretary of the Keokuk
Industrial Association, provided, of
| course, the inquiry possesses the prop
er merit.
-Leming for wall paper and paint
/ ing, 904 Main. Bell phone
The heavy business of Deputy Re-
corder Ed G. Vaughn continues. The
! present month has been record for
transfers, while the number of instru-
I ments filed for the year is only TWEEN
/ ty behind the number for the same
| period last year, which established a
| record.
The Des Moines river bridge
which has been under course of con-
struction all spring and summer, will
! be completed by the first of October,
4 according to Henry Zimmerman, mas
/ ter carpenter of the c. B. & O., with
headquarters in Hannibal. Mr. Zim-
norman was in the city today on bust
ness.
4 Let Hobbs insure your property.
Rev. John c. Sage and family will
return to Keokuk tomorrow evening,
word having been received from the
rector of ST. Johns church, giving
1 that date az the arriving time for him
self and family. Rev Sage had at
first intended attending the conven-
ton Of the Episcopal church at Duluth,
but will return home at once to oc.
cupy his pulpit Sunday morning
-Eighty-six hunting licenses have
been issued to Keokuk nimrods.
&C. P. Dorsey, formerly of this
city, now with the Western Newspa.
per Union at st. Louis, sends The
Gate City clipping from tie st.
Louis Post-Dispatch concerning the
aviation meeting to be held there in
October and the proposed river trip
from Minneapolis to New Orleans.
Mr.. Dorsey suggests that KeokulS
make an effort to secure ianyliny in
Keokuk for the aviator. Tie sug.
gestion is a good one and Efforts will
in all probability be made TO lave the
birdman land in this city.
Reports from the potato region
of Wisconsin are gratifying to the
people who feared, on account of the
generally discouraging reports con.
corning potatoes this year, that the
high prices established during the in
terval between the consumption of the
old and the free arrival of the new
crop would be continued throughout
the winter II is stated that the yield
in Waupaca county is estimated al
100000 bushels, and in the state as
a whole at 100000. In the Wis
consin potato region proper, growing
conditions have been good all sum
mer and the crop has matured Sc
early as to be beyond danger by Sep
TENDER frosts.