The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-22
Southern Iowa Editors in Keokuk
Extracts From What Some Of Them Say in Their
Papers About This City and Its Prospects.

4 Ocrats get In power and there Is not
man who knows him but who will
congratulate him on being selected as
the next postmaster of Ft. Madison.
1 He is one of the most active of men.
i 1t makes no difference to me If he Is
a democrat He is a man in every
sense OF the word and he Will make
postmaster who will please the peo
! pie OF his town. Nels Roberts can
have most anything the newspaper
boys can give him and then they vii,
not be square with him. A good dem
I ocrat is whole lot better than a poor
republican any day and Nels Roberts
is good Democrat
I Mr.. Barr told me an interesting
thing in connection with electricity
and that was as to the cost. This is
so low in manufacture that 1t amounts
to almost nothing. The overhead
charges. that of the salary for man,
ager and many other little things en-
tered into the production that made
, 1t cost The rate in Keokuk for cleo
/ tricity is 10 cents and 1t graduates
down to a much lower price, Ten
! cents is the very highest rate a per-
son is charged and meter rent is TWEEN
1 ty-fve centT per month-just half
! what we are paying in Abba.
The great Mississippi has been so
placed that the water extends back
for 81 miles. The water above the
dam has formed lake which has
been named Lake Cooper and viii h
/ the government has recognized by
4 that name. 1t is one of the creates
engineering feats of the entire world
/ and no wonder people travel from all
parts of the globe to see and learn OF
this great man Cooper, his assistants
and to see the mighty river harnessed
and doing the work of hundreds OF
| thousands OF horses.
came near forgetting all about the
! editorial association. The Southern
Z Iowa bunch are some of the best fel.
lows on earth. The program was a
dSndy one. A banquet was given at
! which there was the breaking Of
bread between the editors and two or
three Keokuk people and members OF
the Mississippi River Power Co.
I. Among the latter was the noted auth,
or, Richard Washburn Child. He talk
ed to US SO pleasantly and gave great
/ information and did it in such an easy
manner. His works have been read
the world over. He is thoroughly
Z posted ON all matters and one OF the
best story tellers. Every editor pres.
/ ent will be a big booster for any book
Y which he may care to bring out for
he was one of the best fellows a per.
son could meet.
Il The editorial meeting was held In
the Y NJ. c. A. building. A fine build
!, ing and one which has resulted since
the young men have awakened We
had some speakers of our own. Stan
ley Miller of the Mt Pleasant Free
Press, had paper that it would have
been good for every person to have
4 heard Stanley travels the highway
/ of life alone He is in the Shockley
of the Oskalosa Globe class. They
remain single so that they may CAD
about the country and tell funny
stories, have good papers on any sub
i iect, and are admired by the ladies'
IL There were other papers and other
Il matters which came up and they were
all good. 1t was such program that
i five minute talks were sandwiched in
along with all the rest OF the square
/ meal program.
8 Jack" Dalton of the Manson Demo.
crat was there because he wanted to
be. Jack" Is going to get figured out
of the game as marshal for the north
!, ern district of Iowa and that Is what
!, call a dirty and mean trick. He
!, had worked his head off for the
blamed democrats, andsh is still
!, working. He should let up on his
, democracy for few months and
/ things might change. Maybe he viii
learn the lesson that his supposed 10
, be friends are the first who wifi
whack him over the head when It
: comes to assisting him in securing
i any office
Special attention was given paper
i read by A. r. Barnes. He told of the
olden time and the editors congratn-
lated him like all get out want to
tell you ! felt proud of the "guv'ner."
All the old chaps present congratulate
, ed him to the limit and Mr. Rowley
of the Keosauqua Republican and
Dave Brant OF the Iowa City Repub-
lican and whole lot of the younger
element were right there with the
congratulatory mitt. 1t rather made
dad feel as If he were In the harness
again, and whaclsing away ON the pa.
per with which / spent seventeen
! years of my existence. He told those
things of the earlier day in the news.
paper business, and gave names and
dates of important things which had
come through the long years he was
Ill