The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-02
CITY NEWS.

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Let Sherwood repair your harness.
BE sure and use the want column
for your wants.
Building operations have started
all over the city and the year will be
a busy one.
For harness you should call up
Sherwood.
The farmers are anxiously await
ing the weather that will allow them
to get into the fields.
The main line trains on the 20"
have been very late for several days
caused by high water in Nebraska
and Colorado.
Julius c. Jensen is temporarily in
charge of the local weather bureau
while Observer Gosewisch is nursing
an attack of lumbago
"A new line of buggies at Sher
woods.
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.
Virginia, the baby daughter or
Mr. and Mrs George Braun, 724 Ex
change street, died at $50 o'clock
last evening of indigestion. This
is the only child. Mr.. Braun came
here with his wife only last fall from
Minneapolis and is engaged with the
water power company.
| With the arrival of warm weather,
an improvement in the roads and plen-
! ty of sunlight commercial activities
are expected to assert themselves with
vigor and business improve all over
the country. 1t is very certain that
/ Keokuk will see an active year in all
lines and 1t is up to Keolauk to make
tha most of the opportunities that
have been given her by the building
of the water power
-Keokuk visitors from Fort Madi-
son were pretty thick Sunday accord
| ing to the Fort Madison papers. Most
of them came to take look at the
dam Among the crowd from that
place who spent Sunday here, We're:
I NItOISS ANdsS6l, OShiOoCts
! Charles Buescher, Leo Nagel, Anna
! Nagel, Frank Hughes, D. r. Alley ana
Henry Lingering. Keokuk visitors to
Fort Madison as reported by the Gem
! City Of that place, are: Miss Bessie
Rempe, Louis Kaneff, A. l.. Parsons
and Mrs. Sid Gumore.
Chris Lock of this city has a
very interesting relic of the civil war
| In the shape of newspaper printed
on wall paper and containing some
| interesting information concerning
the war up to that time. The paper
was prepared to be printed on July :,
1863, while the siege of Vicksburg
4 was in full blast. The paper, The
/ Daily Citizen, says the citizens We're
feasting on mule meat and other de
licacies Of a similar nature. The
city fell before Grant before the paper
went to press, but union soldiers
printed it just as it had been prepar
ed, with the exception Of little
NOTE which the union soldiers put
In one corner and which humorousiy
TclciIEu " W tic icSS' oPPSSA
ing elsewhere in the paper.
The April issue of the American
Review of Reviews contains water
J power article by G. Walter Barr that
is worth thousands of dollars to Keo
kuk and it didn't cost Keokuk a cent
1t is only another one of those many
instances where the water power peo-
} pie, fperhaps this case is Indirectly
are doing something for Keokuk, and
Keokuk must do and continue to dc
something for herself. The article is
in DR.. Bars best style-necessarily
SO to find it's way into the columns OF
a high class magazine like the Review
of Reviews. Six pages are devoted to
the Keokuk water power, carrying
seven illustrations, and one photo
graph And this last is real feature
as it is the first photograph of Chief
Engineer Hugh l.. Cooper that ever
appeared in magazine. The article
calls the Keokuk enterprise "The
Power Achievement OF the Century,
which Is quite appropriate and quite
correct The April Review of Reviews
ought to sell we'll in Keokuk this