The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-28

men were in a section of the grand |
stand not far distant
Rev. T. H. Agnew, of Waverly,
H., will be in the city and preach at
the Church of the Nazarene, 219l
Main street, on Tuesday evening,
August 30. good attendance is re-
quired of all members as there will
be some important business to be at
tended to. ALI are welcome to the
service whether members of not
W. T. Means, pastor
"A Keokuk lady lost gold watch
last week and inserted an advertise
ment in The Gate City want column
requesting the return of the property.
subscriber of The Gate City found
the watch and found the advertise
ment In the paper on his return from
trip on the road, and this morning
the property was restored to the own
err Another pleased customer
Five hundred members of the
Iowa-Nebraska association of colored
Baptists will be entertained in OF
tumwa, September 5, 6, Z, s, 9, 10
and II when the annual convention
of the Women's Home and Foreign
Mission movement meeting is to be
held in the Second Baptist church
there. Rev. NJ ]. Burton of Keokuk
is state missionary for the association.
Auto parties come in large num-
bers to the city each Sunday and
make the hotels their stopping places
for dinner and supper Yesterday at
the Hotel Keokuk, the guest list was
large, as it was the Sunday previous.
Music was furnished by the Orpheum
orchestra, which is proving an at
tractive feature to the dinner parties
from 1890 to 200 o'clock.
The Owls advertising committee
has begun the preparation of adver-
Using matter for the fall carnival to
be held during the first week in Oc-
tober and an abundance of literature
will be distributed announcing the
event The Parker Carnival Co. has
already sent in large amount of lit
erature and there is no doubt but
what the information about the carni-
val will be plentiful and effectual
Rev. John c. Sage, pastor of
st. Johns Episcopal church, his wife
and daughter are expected to arrive
home some time this week from st.
Joseph's Island, Canada, where they
have been spending the pastors va
cation time. 1t is probable that Rev
erend Sage will attend the Episcopal
convention at Duluth. Mimi. to be
in session soon and the pulpit may
be filed bv another minister on the
coming Sunday.
Boy Scouts of Keokuk will be in
terested in the following special from
Camp Cooper, two and one-half miles
north of Hamilton. Ill, where the
first camp OF the kind in this part OF
the country is being held: The frst
general encampment of the Boy
scouts of America ever held in this
mart of the country is now in progress
al this beautiful spot on the river,
kindly loaned to us for the purpose Ds
Mr. cooper. of the Water Power
Comnany Representatives OF the
scout patrols from Carthage, Macomo
and Warsaw are here to the NUMBER
of twenty. the camp being in charge
of Rev DR.. J. II. D. Davidson, OF
Carthage. scoutmaster. and Major w
Rjsse. also of Carthage, as com
rnandant Mr.. John Mitchell, scout
commissioner. OF Oklahoma, is present
az visitor and has charge OF the
department of physical culture
investigations of possible sites Tor
dereloping water power on the PUBIC
domain are being pushed by the Unit
ed Stateg Geological Survey, with re-
sulting Withdrawals OF land from entry
rbere II is found that valuable sites
eYjst In July 31,T25 acres of such
iand were withdrawn. including a
great number Of power sites. No esti-
mate has been made of the horsepo"-
er inycIyed. but owing to the charac-
.er of the power sites withdrawn II is
;,essexed to be very large These July
wittdraTals make total outstand-
ing area Withdrawn of i,546,2oS acres.
5ssed on the examination and recon-
nelGatlon Of tne JtolpSiSoi so -
and involving thoufands OF power sites
ard doubtless millions OF horsepower.
The githdrawIs are made in aid OF
groposed legislation by congress which
shall provide for the fullest possible
deYelopnent Of these enormously valu-
able properties and at the same time
guard the public interests.