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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06
FRANKLIN.
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Another old resident of this locaii
ty answered the summons Of the bugle
Friday afternoon. J. w. Haffner, two
miles east of town, in West Point town
snip, at the age of nearly seventy
years The departed was born and
raised on the same homestead from
which he never removed until his de.
mise. During his time here, he was
a hard working man, loved and respect.
ed by all who knew him. During the
forepart of the sixties he was married
to Miss Lena Graeber, who survives
him. This union was blessed with
three sons, Chris, of Donnellspn.
Henry F. and Walter at home. Mrs.
VIM Seyb. Franklin and Katy, OF
North Dakota. Also one sister, Mrs.
Rev. Chris. Schowalter, a number of
grandchildren and host of friends.
The funeral took place at 200 o'clock
p. m the remains being laid to rest
IN the Haffner cemetery, parcel of
ground given by the deceased's faith
er as early as 1874 for burial grounds
The funeral services were conducted
by Rev. ]. F. C. Trefzer, at the
Evangelical church at o'clock D. m.
the departed had been a patient sllf-
ferer for number of years of dia-
belts.
Judge Ginning opened court of his
district Friday, and up to Saturday
noon had ground out three cases.
Friday morning the case Of VIM.
Young VS.. j. Bailey was called, Judge
Parsons and E. W. McManus of Keokuk
were counsel in case. A jury was
demanded, which found in favor OF
defendant. A motion for appeal TO SUI
perlor court was made and bond filed
Mrs. VIM. Weber and son, Joe, Of
keokuk, who visited with relatives
week, returned home Thursday.
Mrs Dora Beeler of Greeley, Colo,
and her brother, VIM. Harnagel, are
the guests of relatives In Keokuk.
There will be no services at the
local church next Sunday, as the pas
TOR will attend the mission-feast at
Tioga, H.
The hot and dry weather of the past
'ew days is ripening the corn fast.
The annual illustrated addition of
The Gate City last week Is a credit
o its publishers, and the city, in It's
leatness and general appearance.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06
PASSING Of the Old West.

The West amt what it used to be be
fore the wire bands
Was stretchin' out on ev'ry side an
fencin' in the lands;
There amt the elbow room there was
before the hester came
An squatted on the virgin soil to cul-
tivate the same.
1t used to be SO big an wide, SO
boundless an SO free,
AS If a-reachin' out its arms an sayin'
Come to me-"
An we who had our cattle herds. we
let 'em roam at will;
There wasn't any grain zone on val
ley, swale or hill.
The West was boundless; there was
room for all, an room to spare:
Each cattle man was free to say that
he was treated fair,
Before the pillow an reaper why, we
simply came an went,
An with our herds a-waxin' fat, the
cowman was content
But now it's changed; they've hem
med us in an told us thus and
so;
An they have fixed the boundaries
where We may come and 20.
We've got to hold our herds In hand,
an fight for land to Craze,
Becuz they amt a-runnin things as in
the good oil days.
The sunset of our day is gittin' dim
mer in the skies;
They're forcin' us to leave the lands
we won an which we prize.
1t won't be long till Cattle Land is
just memory
A vision of the OF frontier in days
that Used-To-Be.
e. A. Brininstool. i
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06
ELvAsToN, ILL.
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The old schoolmates annual nicnie
for classes of Elvaston school as Ions
/ ago as 1875 was held at Wild Ca,
Springs Saturday, Sept. 2. Those
present were: Mr.. and Mrs. Homer
Williams, Hamilton; Mr.. and Mrs
Coppins. of Carthage; Mr.. and Mrs
John Huston, TT. Green; Mr.. and
Albert Roasa, Granger, Mo-; Mrs. En-
ma Boswell, Chagin Falls, o.; Mrs
Frank Talbot, Corpus Christi. Tex. I.
Mrs. Effie Norton and sons Raymond
and Lester, of Fulton, s. D.; Mrs
Minta Norton and daughter, Erma
Carlisle, Ark; Mrs. Ella Thompson
and sons, Harold and Leland, of Burn.
side; Mr.. and Mrs. James Ewing and
daughters, Lucille and Lois; Mr. and
Mrs. Lee Balloon and son. Waldo. Mrs
Nettie McGaw and daughters, Ieota
and Grace; Mrs. Ioa Marshall and
family; Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Alexander
and daughter, Helen; Mr. and Mrs.
VIM. Roasa and son. Ivan, of Elyas-
ton. Officers were elected and per.
manent organization formed. The next
meeting will be held one year from
date, September /.
DR.. j. A. Miller of Hamilton is NOV.
ing into his old childhood home here
Mrs. Clara Haman has moved into her
house and Grandma Miller will live
with her
Mrs. Minta Triton and daughter Er.
ma OF Carlisle, Ark, are visiting that
lady's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Lively.
j. A. Price, Homer Miller. Clark
webster l.. 7. Thomas, j. e. McGin.
mis- and Hiram Ingersoll attended the
morse sale in Hamilton Friday.
Quite fine rain fell Monday which
is much needed by the farmers for
preparing the ground for seed wheat
peaches are plenty and are being sold
at low prices
Elvaston now has six owners Of an.
tomobiles and the seventh one ordered
so we Will all have joy rides now.
Fred Shriefer of Hamilton and bis
brother of Chicago were visiting old
In this city Monday.
Miss Adele Harrison OF Basco Visit
cd Monday with Crystal Garyey
-four carloads Of hogs were shin.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

Station No. l of the Keokuk post
office continues to break its own rec
ords with religious regularity. During
August it sold stamps and stamped
paper to the value of s1,462.62, as com
pared with $1,221.S4 in August a year
ago-a gain Of $240.78 or nearly 20
per cent During the same month
money orders were sold aggregating
$3,59212, as compared with s1,S77. 90
!. N August, 1910, a gain of $1,715.12 or
almost 100 per cent. Clerk in Charge
/, reeves is to be congratulated upon
me success of his mission"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06
Miller For Governor.

Des Moines Tribune: The reopen.
ing of the campaign between Repre-.
sentative Miller and the doctors will
come as local relief from the strain
of the national situation The Even
Ing Tribune is not sure that anything
could happen more likely to conduce
to human happiness than state wide
campaign with Miller a candidate for
governor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06
His Crime

Waterloo Courier: A Chicago butter
and egg editor supposedly toothsome)
was suspended for "uncommercial
conduct because he printed the fact
that thousands of cases of bad eggs
were being placed in cold storage. An
injustice? Certainly not. 'Uncom-
merciaNsm'' is the greatest of modern
crimes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

No truer statement was ever made
than this: THE man who has no
goods of his own to deliver occupies
his time in condemning the works OF
others" The author is unknown, but
whoever he is he is entitled to credit
for expressing an indisputable truth.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06
cAReHAeE, ILL.

Mrs. Sarah Thomas visited with
friends in Denver the past week.
Mrs. Coppin and children spent a
few days the past week with her
sister, Mrs ]. C. Huston.
Mrs. II. c. Johnson, of Three Oaks.
Mich, who was called here by the
illness of her father, Gilmore LYON.
OF Bowen, was visiting Mesdames
John Horney and Ezekial Walton the
first of the week
Oliver Smith of Quincy is visiting
relatives here.
H. II. Dexter of Augusta was a
business visitor to the city Saturday
Miss Leona McAnulty left the nrst
OF The week. to take up her work as
instructor OF English in the Macomb
high school.
Miss Burris Mcfarland OF Three
Forks, Mont, arrives in the city this
week, to visit with friends. Miss
Mcfarland and Miss ona Rohrbough
expect to enter Eureka College the
first OF next week.
Messrs. Dennis and Luther Swaney
OF Nokomis. ILL.,, arrived Monday
evening to attend Carthage College.
Miss Alta Elder accompanied Mr..
and Mrs. A. ]. McMahan to their
home at Oklahoma city, Okla.
Ray Hough, of Chicago. was visit
Ing Carthage friends Saturday.
MT and Mrs. ]. Paul Califf and Mr.
w. D. Egbers, spent Sunday in Elvas
ton.
Hon. and Mrs. O'Harra visited with
lheir daughter, Mrs. Henry Walker,
Sunday.
Mrs. Ollie oehrle. of Lawrence,
Kansas, is visiting her sister Miss
Eupha Patterson.
Attorney orville G. Kirkpatrick OF
DALLAS City was a business visitor to
the city yesterday.
sam Hartman of Polo, H., is attend
Ing school in the city.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

Americans have made tremendous
progress in eating in the last decade.
The International Stewards associa-
ton says so, and it means that
Americans eat less, but with more dis
elimination, and where they once
Toasted with sauces and gorged them
selves, they now consume only dishes
they can taste, and in moderation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

The esteemed Springfield Register
is reckless enough to say that the
Russian lion" never Gotch such
rushin'. No wonder they have mobs
over at Springfield now and then.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06
keokuk and The Gate CIV.

Sioux City Journal: The Keokuk
cate City Is the newspaper that
boosts Keokuk all the time" The
other day it put out forty-eight pages
10 cover the progress that is being
made in developing the great water
power project" and ito emphasize
the superior advantages of Keokuk as
as location for manufacturing and
allied business enterprises" The
number bore evidence that the Keo-
kuk advertisers are in for that sort
of thing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06
REVERE, MO.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Richey and son,
Jonn, Mr.. and Mrs. Rosalind Danley
and son, all of Ft Madison, spent
sunday with the family Of A. Richey.
Miss Jennie Baker is selling out
her goods. She expects to 20
west.
MISS Kate Hallihan OF Wayland
spent few days last week with Mrs
Richey
Mr.. and Mrs. D. E. Norton and chill.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

Now and then things turn out Just
right. In Chicago the other day the
fool that rocked the boat was drown
ed and the other occupant was res
cued.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

Humboldt, Iowa, isn't to be blamed
for betting all it's money and as much
more as it could borrow on Gotch. Its
faith in the home man was well found
ed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

correct them. But this sweeping raid
son profession to which many of us
owe our lives in one way or another
smacks too much Of yellow sensation
allsm and Of ma,ic,ous undertaking.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

The old adage has 1t that all things
come to him who waits. Abe Martin
had improved 1t by adding, IF he
knows where to wait"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

Champ Clark has let it be known
that he is Delta au-Delta. But why
should he advertise the fact that he
is In the swamps?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06
The PAST.

Still shall the soul around it call
The shadows which 1t gathered
here,
And painted on the eternal wall
The past shall re-appear.
Think We the notes OF holy song
On Millions tuneful ear have died?
Think ye that Raphaers angel throng
Has vanished from his side?
Oh, no! We live our life again;
Or warmly touched or coldly dim
The pictures of the past remain,
Mans work shall follow him!
Whittier.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

We shouldn't wonder If Texas edi-
tor was correct in his view that con
science gets good deal OF credit
that belongs to cold feet.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

dren returned home Saturday from a
few days visit at FIT. Madison.
Roy Brown spent Sunday with
home folks.
Miss Bessie Putnam returned home
Friday after spending several weeks
at thehome of Mrs. o. F. Davidson
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

From all accounts Humboldt fairly
hummed on learning the result of the
big wrestling match in Chicago on
Labor day.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06
THOUGHT FOB The DAY.

Truth is within ourselves; it takes
no rise
From outward things.
Browning.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

Gotch came home with the bacon,
all right.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

The Humboldt man is a hummer, all
right.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

Dlarrhoea is always more or less
prevalent during September. Be pr 8
pared Tor 1t Chamberlain's Collie,
ohoiera and Diarrhoea Remedy .
prompt and effeetual. 1t can always
oe depended upon and is pleasant 70
take. For sale by all dealers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

ped from here Tuesday, two by c. B.
Garard and two by Ewing Bros.
Our school opened Monday morning
with the usual gleeful noise of long
ago. Charley Runyon and Russell
Duncan enrolled IN the Carthage high
school for the winter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06
NOTES AND coMMEMr

1t seems to the Sioux City Journal
that few OF those newspaper cuts of
Mona Lisa could be stolen without
causing much indignant outcry.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

The oyster is again .1n our midst"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

statesmanlike President. He Is safe,
ne is conducting the country safely,
and he should be reelected, as he is
deserving and worthy OF it."
1T never pays for man to figure
out why he should be satisfied with
himself. His totals are apt to be
wrong, either because he uses the
wrong multiplier, or because he for
gets to subtract"
Peter Mahoney of Burlington, is de-
clared to be the worlds champion
brick setter when it comes to the lay
ing OF pavement. In one day of ten
hours this summer Mahoney set 49,
600 bricks. which is at the rate of
more than one second. Considering
that each brick he handled weighs
s.5S pounds, Mahoney in a good days
work lifts 100000 pounds, or It's tons.
The owner of Iowa land which
finds ready market at $3.50 per acre
wonders how Georgia and Texas, with
lands worth only one-fourth or one
half as much can afford to pave and
macadamize the public highways. The
answer is easy" says the Ida Grove
record. Georgia builds good roads
with convict labor, and Texas builds
hers with the money which Iowa
farmers refuse to put in good roads
[or themselves but invest in bonds for
me building of good roads in Texas.
As long as Iowa refuses to go into the
GOOD roads business, the difference in
me value of farm lands in Iowa and
n Georgia and Texas will steadily di-
ninish."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06
MORE "MoNIToRlALs.p

Nixon Waterman continues to bub-
BILE over in the columns of the Chris
tian Science Monitor. One of his
latest conceits is to the following eff
feet:
Some towns won't suffer dogs to stray
When night has dropped her screen;
And when the curfew's rung, they say,
Few ours are to be seen.
Another thus proves the rule:
Our William H. Taft is man of good
"heft,''
And is holding his own. they say,
And, no doubt it Is so, for it's true,
don't you know,
That Where there's Will there's
weigh"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06
DAILY RY MAIL.

DAILY BY NAIL.
One year. So 00iFour months. vi.
Six months...... l.5OIOne month";. 70
Entered in KeolSuk postoffice as second
class matter.
Postage prepaid; terms in advance.
All subscription orders should give the
+. o. address and state whether IT Is
new or renewal order. II change OF
address is desired, state both the oio
and new address.
Remit by postoffice money order,
express money order. registered letter
or draft, a. our risk.
The date printed on the address OF
each paper notes when the subscrI0uoh
expires
Subscribers falling to receive their
papers promptly will confer FAVOR py
giving notice of the fact
Address all communications to
THE GATE CITY COMPAN \.
No. is. North Sixth St. Keokuk, Iowa
THE GATE CITY is on sale at the
following news stands:
Hotel Keokuk, cor. Third and Johnson.
c. HI. Rollins & Co.. by Main street.
Ward Bros. 525 Main street
Depot News Stand.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

Mrs Samuel Kirkwood, the widow
of the famous Iowa war governor. is
still living at Iowa City and celebrat-
ed her Goth anniversary few days
ago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

Noting that corsets are not to be
fashionable this winter causes the
Iowa City Press to say that the at
tempt to convert a meal bag into an
hour glass is agin nature.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

Ottumwa Courier: The Keokuk Gate
City In a forty-eight page special
edition, calls attention to Keokuk,s adj
vantages as manufacturing center.
The centerpiece of the edition is the
work being done on the mammoth
water dam being built across the
Mississippi. which is to harness the
long-wasted powers of the big river.
Information concerning the dam was
carefully compiled and, together with
pictorial matter showing the various
stages of the work and the structure
as 1t will appear when completed.
takes up several sections of an un-
usually interesting and ably prepared
special edition.
Sioux City Tribune: Keokuk has
been telling great stories of the big
things to be done in connection with
the erection of the concrete dam
across the Mississippi. In a special
forty-eight page edition of The Keo-
kuk Gate City issued last week, is en-
phasized the fact that rapid progress
is being made In this wonderful engi-
neering feat. Over 900 men are now
at work and this number is to be
augmented to 1900 next spring. The
Gate City presents a graphic account
of the construction process, illustrated
with many excellnt photographs. In
a short time the
achievement, which for many years
was regarded as an impossibility, will
be reality. It's completion will be
the greatest thing that ever happened
to old Keokuk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

keokuk, Iowa $4,000. Sept. 6, 1911
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06

This new percolator, explained
the Wlfe OF a merchant. exhibiting a
new purchase, Il bought from a Chi
cago firm. 1t cost me only s4.7s and
express. Don't you think got a great
bargain" The husband answered: Il
nave several dozen of the same kind
IN my store and am selling them for
While this paper says the Glen.
WOOD opinion, does not agree with
President Taft in his reciprocity
measure and in some other features
OF his administration, yet these are
comparatively minor points as com
pared to the great whole Mr.. Taft
mas made an able, conscientious and
New-York tribune., 1911-02-05
THE SCULPTURE.

There are pieces OF sculpture in the
exhibition which exist in and for them
New-York tribune., 1911-02-05

skill and feeling in modelling are even
better revealed in the relief commemo-
rating the youth and strength Of Amer
lea, made 10 go above mantelpiece IN
the University Club The figures have
character, suggestively enforced in the
heads. and the technique throughout
shows a competent and sensitive hand
The unity Of the composition, gained
without obvious artifice, is especially 70
be commended To Mr.. Weinman's pedl-
mcnt on the Madison Square Presbyte-
rian Church we have paid cordial tribute
before. II was well to include a souvenir
OF it in this exhibition. II is a relief Of
much beauty and it has a particular sig
niacance as exposing the possibilities Of
polychromatic decoration. To that sub
icct Mr.. Bella Pratt makes an authorita-
tive contribution in his two panels Of
Drama and The Dance" for the new
Opera House in Boston. but his clever
designs lose a little OF their effect
through being shown only as fragments.
Il would be interesting 70 see a large
ana properly colored model Of the build
New-York tribune., 1911-02-05

reprs --ntatVe for IL puts before US the
-Turk o- tre men that count. After ALL
/ sChl.. must le judged by its leaders.
II is interesting t9 observe that the
only really conspicuous instance of ar
chitec,lre ot the o.sleartening kind is
supplied iy IL designer who is, as a mat
ter o. fact. oI tile side OF the angels.
Look.U- no Nr. Cass Gubert's Sketch
for Wo0w.r,L Building" we are half dis
inclined tl hold Linn responsible for the
towerius and quite uuedifying mass.
The problem must have been appalling,
and one has only o. turn 10 his study
!sF University vi Minnesota" 10 see that
De is c-Ia... OF "a scheme both weighty
and disIit.l. Moreover, and looking 10
tAe generalization which we have in
mind. the important point is that his sad
sNscraper IS only an incident in a great
body Of work. The latter brings US back
with gusto -o that question Of taste. 1t
good taste that prevails to-day, the
Taste ot men relying too, not upon mere
scholarship but upon an instructive
sense " things. The outstanding illus
uation is provided, of course, in McKim,
Mead & Whites new Pennsylvania sta
uon, which is shown in photographs Of
ne Interior and In an interesting floor
Plan The student should not fail TO
eAalyze this drawing or 70 note the les
son Of fitness and of right proportions
mat II conveys IN the photographs you
80 The towering Of a piece OF organic
Oesisn. tae wallis rising in @ beautifully
s4pressive envelope as it were, around
ue every day conditions OF a utilitarian
scheme. It is a noble building. demon
su@ung r masterful fashion how mass
ela grandear are in no wise incompau-
D.s with charm. That is the point. 50
Ahey enforced by McKim's genius,