The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-25
CITY NEWS.

Use the want advertisements
they are effective
Have harness repaired at sher-
woods.
Miss Ella Lee. VINO has been sick
for a few weeks with tonsilitis, is i'm
proving.
St Paul's social at Kilbourne park
Wednesday afternoon and evening.
~. P. Allen arrived home this
morning from business trip to Chi
cago and Milwaukee.
Next Sunday will be big day for
Keokuk and several thousand excur-
sionists are expected to visit the big
dam.
/ Buy fly nets at Sherwood's.
Gate City Camp, No. 81. w. O. W.,
meets tonight a. Hawkes. hall. A full
attendance is urged, as business OF inn
portance will come UP.
/ Unitarian Sunday school picnic
tomorrow. All baskets must be at
church or at 45enner Tea Co. store
4 peIOre $50 a. m.
Regular meeting Of Loyal Order
OF Moose, Keokuk lodge No. 704, to-
might at s o'clock in Moose hall. Wis
liting brothers cordially invited. Ed.
ia. Vaughn dictator. Roy NJ Martin
secretary.
The Gate City circulation keeps
growing. II you want to get results
/ for advertising expenditures place
/ your business where 1t can get publ
city.
BY error in Guest Piano Co. ad
bargain No. Steinway upright piano
little used was priced at $50. It
should have read ss5. and we make
! this correction.
In short time the Warsaw and
| Hamilton interurban car will be back
| to the old starting point on Sixth
street, as the track force has just
about completed putting in the ~ =
Members of Morning Star Lodge
No. 5 OF the Knights OF Pythias have
received notice of initiation OF candi-
dates this evening and next Tuesday
evening. On June Is, banquet is to- be
served by the Red Side, which lost
the membership campaign OF the win
i ter.
Postmaster Moorhead Is In Bur
lington today attending meeting OF
the postmasters of the first district.
They have assembled inA Burlington
/ for a first district convention when
matters OF interest to the welrare OF
/ the postoffice service will be discuss
ed.
Big line Of fly nets at sherwood's.
/ The Iowa weather crop bulletin
for the week ending June %, has just
been issued as follows: The first four
days Of the week were abnormally
cool and generally cloudy with fire.
quent showers. The last three days
were moderately warm, clear and
pleasant, but the average temperature
was about 5 degrees below the weekly
normal. The rainfall was also much
below the average, but the rains OF
the previous week were sufficient to
keep the ground in fine condition. 1t
has been too cool for the rapid growth
OF corn. but the crop is doing as well
as could be expected. 1t is, lewever,
small for the season, and very I'M
even in height Some of it is just
coming up, while some is nearly knee
/ high, and is being cultivated the third
time The fields are generally very
clean. Small grain is doing exceptions
ally well, though in a few localities
some rust is reported in winter wheat
and smut in oats. Rye is beginning
4 to ripen in the southern counties, but
for the state as whole the small
/ grain harvest will be about a week
B later than usual. Blue grass is much
better than for the past several years
but timothy and clover Ia va liable:
some sections reporting very good
crops, while in many localities they
are light, and the average yield OF
hay will be little below the aver
age. Potatoes continue very promising
Berries and cherries are of extra fine
quality, but the yields are below nor
NAL. Plums will be much above, and
apples below the average.