The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-09
CITY NEWS.

New line Of coral goods at Ayres
Delivery wagons and buggies at
Sherwood's. 703 Main.
Edward Laubersheimer and wife
have conveyed to Alfred Lunberg lot
ia and the east one-half Of lot IL
block IS. Reeves, Perry and Villains
addition.
Regular meeting OF Hermann
lodge, No. 116, l. O. Q. b., tonight ct
7:30 o'clock. Visiting brethren cor
daily invited.
Keokuk Camp M. w. A. No. 62z |
will hold It's regular meeting tonight
at Woodman hall. All members are
requested to be present.
VIII the party who found the
small black enamel pin with e" OF
pearls advertised in last evenings
Gate City please advise this office. as
an error was made in getting the
phone number telephoned in.
Once Karle repairs your shoes,
you'll be an everlasting patron.
New line Of coral goods at Ayres'.
Sheriff John ]. Crimmins will
leave this evening for Jefferson City,
Mo-. to SECURE requisition papers with
which to bring back Charles M. Math-
ieson, the forger under arrest at St
Joseph, Mo.
Sherwood is selling harness at
low prices. Stop in; 7O3 Main.
Postmaster w. H. Pyles OF CORN,
Mo-. was Keokuk visitor today. He
says that things are looking up in and
about CORN since the recent rains.
Mr.. Pyles has been in the govern
ment service for about ten years and
has served capably as postmaster for
nearly FIVE years.
New line OF coral goods at Ayres'.
Attend Lee County Old Settlers
reunion, Donnellson, Iowa, Aug. nth
and Henry County Agricultural Assoc
citation. Mt. Pleasant, Ia, Aug. ID to
18TH The Burlington Route will
run special trains Aug. II and 18th.
leaving Keokuk at S:15 a. M, return
Ing leave Mt. Pleasant at $3.50 p M;
Donnellson about 1880 p. m.
Attend Lee County Old Settlers
reunion, Donnellson, Iowa., Aug. 18th
and Henry County Agricultural Assoc
citation, Mt. Pleasant, Ia, Aug. Is to
18th. The Burlington Route will
run special trains Aug. II and 18th,
leaving Keokuk at s:15 a.. M. return
ing leave Mt. Pleasant at $3.50 P. M;
Donnellson about 1880 p. m.
Francis Van Tuyl Of Denmark, Ia,
10 1ya q study
OF the rock formations in the exca-
vations Of the Water Power company.
Mr.. Van Tuyl was graduated from
the State university at Iowa City this
spring. He has specialized in geology
and has received an appointment to
an assistant professorship in the geo
logical department Of the university
He will re-enter the university this
fall for post graduate work in geology
and will carry on his studies at the
same time with his new duties as as
sistant.
Hopper dozers, unique recepta
cles, are being tried by Iowa farmers
to rid their farms Of the grasshoppel
pest. During an experiment with the
small hopper dozer in northern Iowa
recently $4,000 grasshoppers were
caught and killed within an hour. The
hopper dozer used In the experiment
was eight and one-half feet In length
which is half the size that should b.
used for practical farm work. Hun
dreds Of grasshoppers which were col
lected In the dozer fell out and coul'
not be counted, but they were NUN
bered among the dead, because NJ
: grasshopper can touch the bottom 0
the hopper dozer, which Is filled Wit
coal OIL without being killed. It is es
timated that half Of these grasshoI
pers were egg-laying females. an
that each insect deposits 100 eggs
year, therefore in one hours expel
ment the grasshopper crop OF mex