The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-31
CITY NEWS.

o. Do W Aous uSiSSdIo lIOlu
belknap Post of the G. A. R., to the
national encampment at Rochester,
was not killed in wreck and has
been located. j. NJ Meredith reports
having seen him in Chicago a few
Gays ago. at which time he was told
that Mr.. Bowman WAS going to Han
over, ILL.,, for visit with relatives be-
fore returning home. This morning a
note was received from him, so he is
all right and the fears expressed yes
terday over his absence, have proven
needless.
Although Keokuk's big dam, her
most extensive manufactures and
some OF her other business institu-
lions are known in all parts of the
country, there are still some people
who have travelled much and have
never heard of the dam being built,
or OF the cereal works, the largest Of
It's kind In the world, or other local
enterprises. This morning a travel
ing man from the east asked the
hotel clerk what it was they were
building here. When told that dam
was in the course of construction,
the stranger wanted to know who was
building 1t. He had never heard OF
the Stone & Webster Co., and wanted
to know what room the company oc-
cupied in the water power building
at Third and Johnson. When told
that the power company occupied the
entire building, and that there were
sixty members in the clerical and
other departments, he was surprised.
This happens occasionally. It is just
such fellows who are surprised when
told that the cereal plant uses 5000
bushels of corn a day.
The Mississippi River Power Co.
now has fifteen hundred men at work
building the water power dam at Keo-
kuk and Hamilton.
At 4 o'clock this afternoon tuner
al services for the late David Ayres
Kerr, were conducted in the chapel of
/ the First Westminster Presbyterian
church by Rev. E. B. Newcomb. The
active pallbearers were: Messrs. L. A.
Hamill, Rice H. Bell, Geo. c. Tucker,
O. w. Ellsworth, d. A. Collier and w.
j. Fulton. The honorary pallbearers
were: Messrs. DR.. ]. M. Shaffer, Col
H. B. Blood, Captain A. H. Evans and
Maj. D. B. Hamill. The body was In
tered in Oakland cemetery.
Its rare that newspaper refuses
advertising but the rush for space in
this issue was SO great that copy was
refused today.
-Four vags, picked up by the police
yesterday as suspects in the fight bo
tween Brakeman Hines and the tramp
the other night, were sentenced to
fifteen days each in the county jail, in
the court of Justice John Leindecker
With the arrival of fifty foreign
laborers from st. Louis, on the steam
er Dubuque last night, the working
| list on the dam construction works al
/ the present time is approximately /,
/ sos.
About 1890 this noon, the steam
er w. w. brought an excursion from
Quincy to this city, the boat landing
at the first lock, to give the crowe
aboard an opportunity to see the dan
construction works. 1t has been sew
eral weeks since the w. w. has beef
in port here.
School days, school days, dear oil
golden rule days. Well we have jus
received large line of boys schoo
suits which will be on sale Frida.
and Saturday, at big reduction. A
the house of bargains-The Bostol
Store, $40 Main street. Keokuk, Iowa
-Woman's Missionary Society OF thu
Congregational church will meet wit
Mrs. ]. l.. Daugherty, 205 Blondeau
Friday afternoon, Sept. /, at O'Clock
DIR. Frank M. Fuller received
word from Quincy this afternoon 0
the death there of Mrs. William TapI
ST.. who is known in Keokuk. She wa
the mother of Mrs. James Crawford
who met tragic death in an auto &C
cident recently, and of ]. l.. TapI
who married Miss Gertrude Fuller 0
Keokuk.