The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-13
THE ALEXANDRIA PHILOSOPHER.
Jasper Blinds Sends in Number Of
News Notes That Will Be Of
General Interest.

the movement of population from the
country to the city, and from his own
county to other counties or states.
The writer notices that in his home
/ county, the exodus of citizens CON
tinues. Recently three families
moved away from. this neighborhood,
and the vacancies remain so.
Glad to welcome the River Bulletin
some months. This interesting daily
I is a useful and breezy scout in the
army of prints.
John Talbot brought out four
bushels of red clover sved, recently,
and will plant this excellent soil re-
4 storer on Will Sage's lands. Some
of the clover will be sown on fields
OF wheat. Glover is gaining Just
estimation among our farmers, and
! wherever clover is used in crop rota-
tion a larger production of wheat and
corn surely follow.
One of the busiest creatures in
Clark county is Editor Talbot, who
j publishes the Kahoka Free Press. To
have a county paper appear twice
week is a fine convenience in local
affairs
4 Last year many people were alarm
ed about Halley's comet, and this
/ year some are scared about the COM
ing of the Periodical Cicada, or So
called locust Quite likely next year
some will be uneasy lest the clouds
fall on them.
4 There is one candidate only for the
office of county superintendent of
schools and this appears strange and
unusual Americans generally have a
sharp appetite for Office.
Now the city folks are having some
consolation at the expense of the
farmers. The market reports have
been telling Of the declining prices
of wheat.
The insurgents in congress appear
20 have passed the blowing-off point
in their internal high temperature,
and have become SO quiet and gentle
that the President may risk putting
his hand on them.
-
Verify many of the troubles of our
country come because of the agitation
of designing politicians. Having in
public as a lecturer of attractive af-
fairs, one Richard Hobson is declar-
ing that the powers of America and
Japan will be engaged in a great
war not farther away than next win
ter. Well this same war has been
raging in Richards not very we'll bal.
anced head for several years in chau-
/. tauqua tents at the per capita rate OF
. fifty cent admissions.
Y The word successful is being used
E quite prominently these days when
] the rural schools are closing. Any
way, the teachers receive their pay.
"
s The great rivers have been acting
g real nice this spring. They shipped
Q out their ice in the the most com
placent style, and now the Mississippi
o and Des Moines are returning to
e modest stages of height.
r The Daily River Bulletin of Tues
day reported the Mississippi free OF
Y ice at st. Paul. after siege of ninety
y days. People up there have to hurry
d to warm themselves to normal de
Z gree between winters.
Il Robins appeared March 6, and larks
and bluebirds were common the same
Il week. ! am closely watching for that
), early Dragon Fly.
Y One third of mile south of the
Il Buena Vista bridge is fine sample
n of concrete work which is largely
k taking the place of wood and iron in
many elements of railway work. This
n is a bridge made of improved con
d crete and | noted the following de
e scription of it: Length of bridge. one
u hundred and seventy feet, depth o.
> siding, thirty inches; spans, fourteen
It resting on concrete stills, these being
Y supported by heavy columns, two
piers having double columns o
s twelve. The road bed is placed IL
e gravel thirty inches in depth, anc
r the cross ties are the only wooder
r. parts of the bridge. The structur,
II is fine sample Of concrete, possess
a ing the clements OF great strength
l. and endurance.
JASPER BLINEs
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