The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-25
CITY NEWS.
Safer walking during the carnival
IL Karle half soles your shoes.

/ il Karle half soles your shoes
| II. w. Chance has conveyed to
W. l. Chance lots 5, and 10 in Vim
cennes.
You'll surprise yourself and buy
several pair when you see the prices
at Bode-Larson's sale this week
Walter Aiken has returntd to his
duties with the local force of the
Burlington after brief vacation.
The boys were glad to welcome him
back as a benedict
1T appears that the steamer North
Star has been purchased for the Bur-
lington route and will be taken over
to the Ohio river for use in ferrying.
This boat was built Ave years ago
by the Diamond 10 company and it
was one of the best rafters on the
river. The rafters are becoming few
er in number each year, as the lum-
her mills 90 out OF business At
the end of this year the Burlington
Lumber Co. mill will close and this
will decrease the rafting business
considerably, so that likely more
steamers will be for sale.
Governor Carroll, in statement
issued the other day declares that
the state prisons OF Iowa should be
self-supporting. He also announces
that he is making an investigation Of
prison conditions in Iowa to ascertain
where the leak Is He charges that
/ 1t cost s17o.0oo In the last biennial
period, whereas prisons should be
self supporting. His statement
follows: "a good deal OF
comment has recently been
made with regard to prison man
I agement and prison conditions think
/ ] shall be able within a short time to
give out a statement which will per-
haps enable the public to arrive at a
better understanding with regard to
/ these matters"
The following item from the Bur-
/ lington Saturday Post refers to for
| Coy, directory publisher of Rockford,
/ Ill, is a business visitor in the city
today. Mr.. Mccoy publishes the Bur-
lington city directory at not infre-
auent intervals and it goes without
/ saying that the book gives the very
/ here for the purpose of looking over
the field with view TO an early ap-
/ pearance of a new directory here.
/ An effort will be made by Secre-
tary Sumner of the state board OF
! health to bring the national Red
Cross car. First Aid to the Injured"
to Iowa this fall 1t is the purpose OF
! Secretary Sumner to send the car to
| all railroad centers and to all mining
districts. The car is equipped with
! apparatus for giving demonstrations
in the proper methods of giving first
aid to injured persons. A corps OF
able medical instructors accompanies
the car. 1t is hoped that in this way
many accidents which might other
wise prove fatal can be minimized in
| danger by teaching the men working
in railroad shops and mines practical
| ideas in caring for workmen who be-
come injured
There are 30 many empty upper
| berths in the Pullman sleeping cars,
ever since the law went into effect
reducing the rate, that a proposition
/ is now under consideration to reduce
| them still further on combination
/ plan The new idea. which has been
| submitted for the approval of the Pull
man company, vii give traveller
both the upper and lower berths for
/ so cents added to the price of the
! lower alone. This has been suggested
because Of the great number of empty
upper berths to be found on the s.
! 600 sleeping cars operated In the
/ United States and Canada The rate
| for a lower berth, for example. be-
tween Chicago and Cleveland, is 50.
For SO cents extra. should the propos-
ed system be adopted. one could get
the entire section for himself. Under
| the present rate it would cost him
! $3.50. Ticket agents for both east and
| west roads say they have not observed
any change in conditions since the re.
cent ruling of the interstate COM
merce commission. reducing the price
on upper berths 20 per cent.
The Iowa weather crop bulletin
for the week ending July % has lust
been issued as follows: The average
temperature for the week was below
normal for the first time since the
/ first week in May; the average daily
deficiency for the past week being
about 6 degrees. A few, generally
! light and scattered showers. occurred
on Tuesday, Wednesday and FRIDAY.
but over the larger part of the state
the rainfall was practically nj until
Saturday nfeht or Sunday morning
when fairly copious and well-distrfbut.
ed showers occurred Cool nights
partially cloudy weather and absence
| OF bot winds have enabled corn TO
| hold its own remarkably well consid
ering the small amount of moisture
In the soil Over the southern and
parts OF the central and northern
districts corn has suffered some dam.
age, but the crop as whole is doing
as well, IL not better than could he