The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-17
CITY NEWS.


A delegation OF Pennington h.As
visited Camp II Sunday.
A cement platform is being laid |
at the Hamilton railway depot.
With the return of cooler weather
there should be a return Of church
attendance
There is some inquiry as to
whether Keokuk viii hold some kind
of q celebration this fall
MIR. and Mrs S. s. Hitler and a
party OF friends motored up from
Kahoka yesterday and spent some
time with friends In Keokuk.
Subscribers to The Gate City
who fail to receive their paper should
report every failure TO the business
office not later than Sis each even
Ing
The rain maker who could furnish
the rain would have had to increase
his working force this summer II he
had been on the job. He took vaca-
ton or went to the ball game
During the past lew days, fishing
has been very good in this vicinity
and several good catches have been
made along the river and in the
/ sloughs and ponds of this vicinity.
The union services were held last
evening in the First Baptist church
with Rev. E. 3. Newcomb. pastor of
I the Westminster Presbyterian church
preaching the sermon. There was
good attendance
The pay car of the Burlington
route was due at Keokuk today, be
/ ing scheduled to arrive on No. 3. The
Burlington hands checks TO $1,000 en-
ployes every month. and the vouchers
due the Keoknk force look good 10
them, the boys say.
Professor Rowley. superintendent
of the public schools at LOUISIANA.
Mo-, and one OF the well known geo
logical authorities in the United
States. is in the city for few days
examining the geological formations
on the Water Power Prof Rowley is
a personal friend of J. o. Boyd.
~. D. Rebo of Alexandria, Mo-, was
in the city today Mr.. Rebo has the
thanks of this Office for leaving a copy
/ of book written by him recounting
incidents of his trip around the world.
1t Is an excellently recounted story of
the trip made by DR.. Rebo and many
others on a recent extensive circle
OF the globe.
An auto party from Quincy that
spent part OF yesterday in Keokuk
was composed of Mrs. F. ". Merke,
Mrs. E. Hagenbach, Miss Louise
Hagenbach, r. E. Hagenbach, Miss
Louise Fohrmann, Carl Ruff, Fred
Bartholomew and George 0. Beuck-
man. Another party of ten Quincy
autoists took dinner at the Hotel
Keokuk
The Rev. W. Brown of San Fran
cisco will lecture at the It'll Street
Baptist church, Concert street tonight
at 8 p. m. The lecture free. All are
welcome. The subject OF the lecture
. 1.-THE Great Earthquake and Fire, ana
the Negro in History" Mr.. Brown
. was an eye witness and a persona
; sufferer He was in the fire for foul
. days and nights. He lost his church
This appeal comes to all for help. The
. lecture will be free All are welcome
. The Gospel Workers OF the Keo
, kuk Y. NJ G. A. held the secont
. meeting for this season at Alexandra
!. last night The party which Wen
down In two machines, was composed
. of Secretary Burns, c. F. Mcfarland
Henry Stricken, H G. Brown, J. A
: Roberts and the Association quartetti
James Young, P. C. Hayden, IA. F
Risburg and J. R. Hayden. Service
!; were held in the First Presbyterian
church, which was filled to the doors
/ The address was delivered by c. T
i Mcfarland and was received wit
Il deep interest, several men and VIC
men responding to the invitation +
II express the intention of leading tn
Il christian life. Next Sunday afternoon
II the workers will go to Summitville
II where services will be held in the al
H ternoon.
II The usual number of water powe
III eycursionists were on hand yestel
u day, thronging Main street, the park
and swarming over the works at tn
river. The largest crowd came in owe
the T. P. and w. arriving about moo
! and departing at six o'clock. Their
were ten coaches, carrying some fiv
i hundred people from Peoria and wa
4 points. This was the second of
4 series of excursions over this road
the next being scheduled for abou
the middle Of August. The Keoku
had an unusually large Sunday crow
4 bringing many people from as ia
down as Hannibal, and from TIL
back country adjacent to the rive
4 towns between here and Quincy
About eighty residents of Benjamir
Bunker Hill and other places in BIZ
/ hind Canton were aboard. The Colun
bia brought a good crowd from Blu
lington and intermediate points.