The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-02
CITY NEWS.

Best cheap boards you ever saw.
keokuk Lumber Company.
Don't fail to read the advertise
ments, New store announcements APP
pear every day.
The steamer Black Hawk prob
ably made its last Sunday trip yester-
day, according to adyices received by
the local agent OF the line, ]. B.
Hutchinson.
With number Of sight seers
| aboard, the steamer Keokuk was in
from Quincy Sunday afternoon at /
O'Clock and left again at 5, on the
return trip.
The progressive Keokuk High
school students will conduct booth
at the corner of Sixth and Main dur
ing the carnival, the money made to
go to the athletic association.
| Let Sherwood repair your har
ness.
Regular meeting Keokuk Council
! No. 536 tonight at o'clock. Hawkes.
hall, Eighth and Main. Visiting breth-
rem fraternally invited to attend C.
M vogler, regent; ]. l. Annable, sec
rotary.
Masonic: Regular meeting of
Eagle lodge No. IL, A. r. and A. NJ.
| 7:3o o'clock Tuesday evening, Octob-
er 3, 1911. Visiting brethren fratern-
ally invited. BY order of the w. NJ.
8. H. Johnston, secretary
Back water from what is known
as the Fabius river, between West
Quincy and LAGRANGE in Missouri.
weakened the roadbed of the Burling-
ton yesterday and made running slow
between those two points.
The north bound *" line train
was about twenty minutes late this
morning. The south .bound passenger
No. IL, arriving at $50, did not carry
the Chicago mail. The mail was
brought down on the afternoon train,
No. 4, at 1915.
With sixteen days of rain and
eleven thunderstorms, September did
not break any records with its total
rainfall Of 7.6T, not coming up to the
years 1874, 1876 and 1896. In the
weather summary for the month, OBJ
server Gosewisch reports that there
were IL clear days, 6 pas'tly cloudy
days and Is cloudy days. The cool
est day of the month was the thirtiett
at 81, while the first two days of the
month were the warmest, being "a.
Buy buggies at cost at Sherwood S
Several OF the moving picture
theatre operators have asked the pc
lice to keep the young boys who ST
about on adjoining curb stones ant
linger about in front of the show
houses, away from the theatres. Lads
eight and nine years old can be seeI
nightly, putting cigarettes and pipe'
and making anything but a pleasan
| picture for the patrons of the picture
| / shows
John Dewitt, Keokuk's industrial
i agent, is in Des Moines today opening
i his study of the freight rate situation
/ throughout Iowa in which this city i
/ SO greatly interested. Mr.. Dewitt vii
U spend the day with the state com
! merce counsel and will then visit Chi
cago and Davenport. Keokuk want
: to know just what is going on in TIL
i. state in regard to the freight rat
{ proposition.
Rev. j. w. Potter with the men
bers of his family, have departed TO
Sioux Falls, 8. D., where they vii
!. make their future home. DIR. Potte
= preached his farewell sermon last e,
ening to an immense congregation
!. the main auditorium being filled an
{ the Sunday school class rooms, in a.
: overflow condition with the presenc
{ of many who listened to the splendid
c. farewell of the minister VINO has bee
I one of the most popular clergyme
the city has ever known. Reyeren
Brown who comes from the Siou
Z Falls church to Keokuk, will not b
I here until the 10Th OF the month Til
: Men and Religion Forward Move
{ ment,' will have charge of the sci
/. vices at Trinity church next Sunday
6 w. o. Mcclellan, who number @
years ago was a conductor on tn
/. dinky train running between Keoku
{ and Hamilton on the T. P. and w
and is remembered by some of tn
OlQ0T ClLlZcus, was luJuTeu Teceutl
in Spokane, Wash, a paper of tina
city giving the following details: v
I D. Mcclellan, a Spokane Commercial
! photographer, was painfully injure
I today, as the result of an automobil
: accident which happened one mil
south of Harrington. Wash. McLe
Ian, in company with q. Kruger, wer
racing along the country road abou
40 miles an hour, in an endeavor t
catch train, when the machine hi
bridge and bounced to one sids
Both men were thrown forward /
the car Mcclellan struck his hea
against the cover guard, ana receive
a severe flesh wound Kruger receiv
ed bad cut over the left eye. Krus
er drove The car on into Harrington
where doctor at the hospital dresse
their wounds. Mcclellan came to Spt
: kane on later train and Is under tn
care Of a physician.