The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-13
CITY NEWS.

Take your harness for repairs to
Sherwood's, 7o3 Main.
Miss Edith Kiser Of this city has
accepted position at The Fair store
i In Chicago.
The place to buy harness, fly
nets and drivers articles is at Sher-
1 woods.
You may call any day at the Tri.
State Commercial College and see
those typewriters that are being CIV
en- away.
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,
"A Smith Premier No. 2 or a Rem.
/ ington No. typewriter free to those
who enroll for either our combined
course or the secretary's course, be-,
fore Sept. I. 1912. Tri-State Com
mercial College.
Regular meeting Of Loyal Order
4 of Moose, Keokuk lodge No. 704, to-
I night at s o'clock in Moose hall. Wis
ting brothers cordially invited Ed.
|iG. Vaughn dictator. Roy NJ. Martin
secretary.
Il Mail intended for the members Of
4 Co. L, now in camp at Iowa Falls.
should be addressed in care OF Cap
tain Frank LeBron, Co. L, Fifty-fourtll
Infantry. I. N. Ga Iowa Falls, Iowa,
Camp Logan.
Regular meeting Morning Star
lodge No. 5, Knights Of Pythias to-
night at 500 o'clock at Castle hail.
Fifth and Blondeau. Visiting knights
invited. John P. Johnson, G. G.
Lump" Harris went before Judge
Leindecker yesterday afternoon and
changed his not guilty plea to guilty,
and got fifteen days in the county Jail.
He was arrested for disturbing the
peace. et
"A man named Gilbert, living in
4 West Keokuk, reported to the police
i this morning that burglars had enter
| ed his home some time during last
night and robbed him Of $50 in money,
and several trinkets. The burglar or
i burglars left no clue.
Quincy Herald. Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert L.. Bowles of 534hls Hampshire
street are entertaining their grand
i daughter, Miss Opal. daughter of Mr..
land Mrs. Ed Moore. OF Wyaconda. Mo-
4 She will remain during the week,
4 leaving next Sunday for Keokuk on
her way home and accompanied as far
as that city by Mr.. and Mrs Bowles.
The committee appointed 20 at
4 tend to the financial side of the dedi-
cation OF the monument to the I'M
known dead to occur here Thursday,
were out this forenoon soliciting for
/ the necessary funds. The committee
Ia composed Of John e. Craig, Mai
John A. Dunlap and Howard w. Wood
who in few hours succeeded in SCI
curing an amount sufficient for the
i purpose.
/ The Iowa weather and crop bulle-
tin for the week ending August II, is
as follows: The past week was cool
and showery. with an excess OF cloud
mess and humidity. The average daily
deficiency OF temperature was about
/ eight degrees, and while the average
rainfall was about normal, many To-
calities reported an excess OF mois-
ture. In some sections showers oc-
CURED every working day OF the week,
which delayed threshing and stacking,
but the bulk of shock threshing is
finished in the southern, and is well
! advanced in the northern districts
Reports continue to show large yields
OF small grain. Corn Is still doing
well, and with favorable weather in
the future will make one OF the lar
gest crops ever produced in this state
4 Many of the early planted fields in
southern and central counties are now
in the roasting ear stage, and the late
4 planted fields are making rapid
q growth, but would do better with
8 warmer weather. Pastures and pota-
4 toes are improving, and are generally
4 in good condition. Fall blowing for
i winter wheat has begun in southern