The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-01

visiting relatives and friends. Mr..
Foster is agent for the Rock Island
railroad at Wyoming, and is off on
his vacation, besides attending to a
little personal business on the side.
Mrs. Forster, nee Sheppard, was born
and raised in Warsaw, daughter of
the late Mark Sheppard and has many
dear friends here who give her a
warm welcome.
Wendell Sack, travelling passenger
agent of the Northern Pacific railroad,
Chicago, spent Sunday with his pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Halsey X. Sack.
Morgan Bros, of Chicago, will have
+ their engineers here this week to
make a survey and plat OF the city
for the installment OF the sewerage
system.
Albert Pieirit will soon erect a neat
home on the lot just west Of his broth
er, Edward, near the top of Main
street hill.
Four automobiles properly decorat-
ed with banners, announcing the COM
ing Odd Fellows and fall celebration,
October 10, II and IL, started out
Monday for trip to neighbor-
| ing towns, telling the public what
they will miss If they don't come and
see us on those dates. The executive
committee and subcommittee have
worked long and arduously, but their
laJbors will be crowned with success,
and it may be safely predicted that
the coming celebration will be the
best that Warsaw ever had.
| The new suburban home of Joe
Mag on College Hill, Is nearing com
pletion, and will be credit to him.
Henry Satory's new home on the
south side is almost completed and is
| an ornament to the city.
The site of FIT Edwards on the north
bluff, Is kept as neat and trim as the
/ finest lawn and affords the most
beautiful view of the three states. Il
| is bordered by the beautiful homes Of
John B. Worthen, John Giller, w. 3
Albers, c. E. Eymann, Richard o
Marsh and Miss Bertha Marsh, all OF
which have handsome lawns or shrub
j berry. At the most prominent point OF
this bluff is fine site for monu
ment, iron flag staff and cannon to
mark the spot formerly occupied by
/ the main fort building. Such monu
ment would be observed for miles ur
and down the river.
Mr.. J. L. Schram. the public spirited
superintendent of the Mississippi but
| ton factory, has offered the city
enough she'll refuse to pave Third
street from Jackson to Main street II
the city will take it's stone crusher te
the factory and crush the shells. This
much free. to demonstrate their utility
las street and road material. If the
city dads are then satisfied he will
sell them the shells at 35c per ton FOL
paving other streets; they cannot be
excelled as road material, proving bet
ter than macadam for they bind bet
i ter
Geo. Pohl, road supervisor fol
| Wythe township. has been doing some
good dirt road building and grading on
4 the road from Cole Crawford's to the
| Excelsior school house, and asks oul
business men to pay for one weeks
additional work which will complete
4 the road and prove an inducement to
farmers near it to trade in Warsaw
instead of other towns; trade that
lrightfully belongs to Warsaw.
i Scott Richardson recently returned
i from Kansas City with seventy-four
head of cattle averagi.s 1000 lbs
each, which he will feed for market
i The canning factory's receipts
broke the record this fall, and quality
Iof tomatoes never was finer; the sea
son has about closed but there is
much yet to do to get the crop ready
for shipment; over ten carloads OF
cans have yet to be labelled
An early October wedding will be
that OF popular and much admired
young couple, the cage for the bird