The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-06
CITY NEWS.

A marriage license was issued yes
terday afternoon TO Joseph NJ. keim
of Brussels, H., and Eta V, Fryman
of keokuk.
Driver John Fisher OF the Sixth
Street fire station, is back on duty
again after being laid up for a week
with bad wrist
i'm consideration OF 500 VIM,
Thomas has conveyed 10 j, B. Pappel-
endam two and seven -eighths acres
in section /. township IS, range 6,
The fire department was called to
F and Ash streets ST o'clock yester-
day afternoon where some weeds on
the bluff above Soap Creek were burn
ing,
For sale Three round trip tick
cts from keokuk TO ST. Paul on
Streckfus Line steamers. Must be
used this month. Call at The Gate
City otaoe for further particulars.
City Attorney Ralph Smith has
added another department to his al
ready large list of duties. He is SUI
perintending the construction of an adj
dition. 1sxss, to his Morgan street
home
Selling her business TO j. B. Sieg-
fried, a Hamilton citizen. Mrs. Thos.
]. Farmer, who has been a restaurant
keeper here for more than twenty
years, has retired after long and
successful period IN cafe affairs.
The registration boards will be in
session again next Saturday II you
failed TO vote at the last election it
viii be necessary for you to register.
Don't fail TO register and vote next
Monday
-Messrs Mattern, Tabor. Lynn and
Warren, OF Donnellson, were in Keo-
kuk yesterday transacting business, re
turning home about 5 O'Clock in the
evening They report an absence of
rainfall in their particular locality.
The big city circulation of The
Gate City obtained results for Gus
toner of the want column last night
when an advertised lost purse was re
turned to this office and placed in
the hands of the owner. These are
common and everyday results for the
patrons of this paper.
Other cities are beginning to
note the popularity of Keokuk as an
excursion center. The following from
Burlington Keokuk is popular
destination for excursions this season,
There we're three excursions there
yesterday-one from Peoria, one from
n,,tn I'D 1ar hue he
Liedertafel excursion from Burlington
I'm speaking of the Woodmc1 of
the World services which are to be
held here this coming Sunday, Bur
/ lington paper says: The officers OF
the camp will assist in the unwilling
services at keokuk next Sunday. The
camp will go on the steamer Colum bia
! leaving here at $50 a. M, returning
leave Keokuk at $50 p. m.
The Mississippi River Power Co
has conveyed to the National Pickle &
Canning Company number of lots in
Montrose. The pickle company have
in turn conveyed to the Water Power
Co. all of that part of block that lies
between the southerly line of the c.
B. & @. railroad tracks, the st. Louis
Keokuk & Northwestern railroad car
tracks and the Mississippi river.
Sunday morning at the residence
of her sister, Mrs. E. A. Leighton, 327
North Fifth street, funeral services for
the late Mrs. Adeline NJ Carpenter
were held at 8 o'clock, the Rev Geo
C. Williams of the First Congregation
al church officiating. Many friends OF
the former Keokuk citizen were in
attendance. Those gentlemen who
assisted as body bearers were: Messrs
Geo. E. Rix, Judge F. T. Hughes, A. l.
1 Parsons, John E. Craig, DR.. Kinnaman
1 and John R. Irwin.
| The Iowa weather crop bulletin
for the week ending June is as fol-
/ lows: Another ideal week has been
! added to the record of this unusually
favorable season. The week began
with moderate temperature and light
to heavy and fairly well distributed
/ showers, and closed with excessively
high temperatures. Copious rains oc
CURED on Thursday and Friday over
the east central and northern districts
I The average temperature being tic
6 degrees above the normal and the
maximum temperatures equaled or ex
ceeded 80 degrees on the last -four
days, over the larger part of the
state. The rainfall was generally
much below the normal although al
X sections received some moisture, and
in many localities the showers were
/ heavy. All crops, especially corr
made rapid growth and are in gooc
condition generally, except in south
eastern counties where the rainfall
has been light for several weeks
Small grains are, however, headins
with shorter straw than usual and the
hay crop will be light. although con
siderable improvement was noted
during the week in localities where
heavy shoWere bava occurred