The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27
CITY NEWS.


the depot platform.
Drive your horse hitcned to de-
| livery wagon from Sherwood's.
Many Keokuk people are leaving
the city for their summer vacations.
Harness your horse at Sherwood's.
Black berries and raspberries are
not as scarce as 1t was first reported
they would be.
Hunting licenses expire on June
30. Those who wish to renew can do
| SO by calling on Green N Vermillion,
the deputy auditor
/ Another rain like last Saturdays
i would help things out wonderfully.
The dust is getting thick again.
| Water melons, shipped, have been
making their appearance steadily in
the markets during the past week or
! two
Nothing has yet been done to-
ward improving the levee. A ragged
looking city front makes first impress
sions bad and first impressions are the
ones which count most.
Regular meeting Morning Star
lodge No. 5. knights of Pythias to.
night at 500 o'clock at Castle hall,
Fifth and Blondeau Visiting Knights
invited. c. c. Koepf c. c.
The Boston Store Company filed
articles of incorporation today. The
/ capital stock is given as $4,000 and
| the officers are Jacob A. Cohen, pres
/ ident and treasurer, and NJ. B. Lewis,
secretary
! A soda fountain and rest room on
Water street, well equipped and clean
would be a paving business for some
4 one to establish Thousands of ex-
cursionists here during the summer
would patronize river front con
fectionery stand.
Railroad workmen started this
/ morning to raise the coal chutes at
/ the G. B. & @. round house at the foot
of A street, SO that the locomotives
will have less difficulty in getting coal
from the large bins overhead The
work is being superintendent by Henry
Zimmerman, master carpenter of the
o. with headquarters in Hannibal
Weed cutting time is at hand In
many places about the city, and es-
pecially on the north side near the
park and on North Eleventh and
! Tenth where there are vacant lots.
the growth Of weeds in SOME places
/ is nearly as high as ones head. 1t
\ is the intention of the city to work
some Of the prisoners in the Jail on
the streets cutting away the vegata-
ton which is growing rank.
The primary meeting of the board
of supervisors last week was that of
a board of equalization to settle the
| 1911 taxes for Lee county The re-
turns of the township assessors were
reviewed and all were accepted ex-
cept those pertaining to taxes upon
real estate in three townships In
Pleasant Ridge township real estate
assessments We're raised 10 per cent, in
Harrison township 5 per cent. and
in Van Buren, per cent All other
assessments stand as they were in
the returns of the assessors.
The Iowa weather crop bulletin
for the week ending June % has just
been issued and reads as follows:
The weather during the past week
was exceedingly hot; the average
daily excess of temperature being
about degrees, and the rainfall was
nil until the last two days when ligh
, to copious local showers occurred ovel
the larger part of the state In many
localities the amount of rainfall was
however, too small to be of muci
benefit except to freshen up vegetation
and purify the atmosphere Corn i
holding its own remarkably we'll ant
has not as yet suffered any materia
injury, though nearing the DANCE
time in a few localities Much of !
has been laid by in good condition
!, and in few counties some of tn
!, early planting is beginning to tasse'
Reports vary as to the condition o
small grain, but most of the CORES
!. pondents agree that oats and sprin
wheat have been seriously injured an
In some localities, in the central, Wes-
, ern and southern counties the pros
poets of an oats crop have been IL
duced from 20 to 40 per cent. In a
sections where the showers on SUI
: day were even moderately heavy, a
:, late grains will be materially benz
: fitted. Most the winter wheat ha
: been cut and gives promise of fai
yield of good quality. Hay maxim
:. progressed rapidly and the dry, hi
weather was favorable for securin
the crop in excellent condition, a
- though the output is much below til
= average. Pastures, garden truck ar
early potatoes have received the mo
= injury from the drouth Early pot
: toes are practically failure and Il
late potatoes need rain at ono
Apples have been damaged to con
~ extent, but If rains come within Il
= :, next week there will be a fair crop
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