The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-11
CITY N EWS.
Sherwood for nv nets.

There was gentle patter Of rain
this morning at Z o'clock, but half an
hour later the sky was clear and the
sun shining.
Gate City Camp. No. 81, w. o. w.
meets tonight at Hawkes. hall. A full
attendance is urged, as business of Inn.
portance will come up.
The w. w. brought In large
crowd of excursionists yesterday from
Mediapolis and Burlington. The ex-
cursion was given by the Mediapolis
band.
I r eguiar meeting Morning star
lodge No. 5, Knights of Pythias to-
might at 500 o'clock at Castle hall.
I Fifth and Blondeau Visiting Knights
invited. John p. Johnson. C. C..
-Almont Schaefer, of Kahoka,
Missouri. was picked up by the police
here after the young mans father
had made the request to catch him.
Young Schaefer had started on a tour
of the world and made Keokuk his
first stop.
An interested citizen in the new
Y. ". G. A. project suggests that 1t
| would be a nice gift for some gener-
/ ous-hearted and well-to-do citizen to
give to the Y. w. C. A. a girls swim
ming pool for their new building.
Don't all speak at once.
Buy fly nets at Sherwood's.
i Norman S Pleasant, Fort Madi-
son convict recently paroled, Is In
4 jail In Burlington and will be sent
! back to Fort Madison to complete his
j sentence. Pleasant found lady
/ friend in Burlington and took on too
j much booze.
4 Members of Morning Star Lodge
/ No. OF the Knights OF Pythias have
4 received notice Of initiation of candi-
dates this evening and next Tuesday
evening. On June 25, a banquet is to be
4 served by the Red Side, which lost
the membership campaign OF the win
ter.
4 Fly nets for little money a.
/ Sherwoods
i The big steamer st. Paul. left Han
nibal this morning at o'clock with a
:. big crowd on board bound for Keo-
kuk, the excursion being given by the
J, Presbyterian Sunday school of that
place. A stop was made at Quincy
on the way up and the boat was due
in keokuk at late hour this after
s. noon with trip through the lower
lock in order to give the passengers a
so far Keokuk has been quite for
tunate In the matter OF automobile ac-
cidents and it is hoped that this good
fortune will continue but there, are
/ serious indications that it win not.
Some automobile owners are not only
4 disregarding the legal restrictions but
i they are criminally neglecting their
moral obligations to mankind by
speeding on Orleans street Last ev-
enlng Two automobile drivers raced
on Orleans street side by side AZ 4
nigh rate OF speed and at rate that
! would have been impossible to reduce
IN time to avert an accident at a
! crossing. Little children crossing the
streets are endangered. 1t is a
. practice that should be stopped and
stopped at once before some one is
killed or crippled for life. The pres
ence OF the police on this street fol
few evenings to gather in few Of
the speed breakers would be along
proper lines.
I Superintendent Rakow hopes tina
/ there will be large attendance o
;! citizens with their families at the con
cert at the High school assembl,
room tonight. The program of master
pieces by master-singers to be givel
by Mr. Jesse e. Baker with III
anxetophone was printed in The Cat
City Sunday. A large audience Shout
hear this concert.
r The Iowa weather crop bullet,
d for the week ending June 9 has jus
J, been issued from Des Moines as fo
: lows: The past week was unseasor
r ably cold, and over the larger part o
the state much drier than usual. TIL
daily mean temperature ranged fror
6 to degrees below the norma,
Light frost occurred on low ground Ii
. the northern counties on the mornin
lof the seventh, but no material dam
age was done. The rainfall was ger
orally light. but copious to heav
showers occurred in the Des Nome
(. valley on the fifth. The condition
were favorable for field work, an,
rapid progress was made in cultivatin;
corn. Practically all ct the earl
: planting has been plowed once, an
] much of it the second time. Small
grain and grass, especially spring seed
; ing of timothy and clover have mad
: good growth, but the hay crop will no
be up to the normal Glover cuttin
will begin in the southern countie
: during the coming week, with pros
: poets of light yield. Cherries an
plums promise fairly good crop, blu
= the June Drops of apples is heavy Of
some varieties.