The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-18

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features of entertainment The mid
winter meeting is to be held at Iowa
ICity.
An invitation was extended to the
association b. j. w. Rowley to hold
next summers meeting at Keosauqua.
and the sentiment to do so seemed
almost unanimous as far as individual
expression was made. However, no
formal action was taken by the as
ISOLATION, that being left for consid-
Grafton by the meeting at Iowa City
next winter.
Says keokuk Is Dirty, But He Likes
II.
Stanley Miller in Mt. Pleasant Free
Press: The newspaper men OF south
lern Iowa, met at Keoi-uk last week.
They had a three days session, but l
could stay only one day, but that day
was enjoyable, after the paper had.
Ito read was out of my system.
told them why My Banker Spends
His Winters in California, and spend
Mine in Mt. Pleasant
The subject was not of my choosing
and my banker does not spend his
winters in California because he has
too much sense, but that had nothing
to do with the case. A man always
can talk more about something that
lis partly fiction than he can about the
facts. That is why a great many
politicians are elected to Office while
the statesmen are often retired after
lone term in congress. The statesman
doesn't deal in enough fiction to suit
1.-THE folks back home, SO he gets cam
med. AS l got back home / suppose
III tgot by with my effusion.
Keokuk is delightful old place
mean the people are fine but they
Ought to clean up the odors Of the
town. There are ffty-seven varieties
of odors and thought the morning
came away l noticed several others as
l was on the way to the station. There
Iare buildings as old as the pyramids
in that town. There are some back
yards in that town that have not been
cleaned up since the year that Co
lumbus discovered America and it has
been long time since / noticed SO
many flies. They may have read of
i. swatting flies down there but they are
not practicing it. In fact, doubt if
swatting the flies world help down
there. There are too many breeding
places. There are SO many ram.
, shackle houses which have insanitary
t surroundings. Why in the world
! doesn't the town clean up?
But there is one thing about the
town, there are some very delightful
2 places, residences and there are some
. mighty substantial bubsiness houses
/ in the town. There is lots of wealth
in the town. The people have money
and are too contented to try fol
a more money by making the town at
i tracttve by cleaning up. And o.
8 course the great thing now is the
: greatest water power project in thc
world. 1t is nearing completion.
is wonderful thing | was there
S the first day of the meeting and thu
y next day the newspaper people wer,
taken through the power house ant
shown the workings by G. Walter Bar
who showed us the uncompleted plan
last year
d The great power plant is attractin,
e visitors from all over the world l
Z Is now in operation, although not We
: completed, but power is being sent t,
y st. Louis and Keokuk on the line
With the present arrangement thu
dam will furnish one hundred and fit.
ff thousand horse power. When thu
D. plant reaches its final capacity it will
s be nearly double that. The water il
e being damned now and magnificen
D. lake has formed above the dam which
IS as you know the government ha
named Lake Cooper 1t is so big i
looks like a lake and on windy dayl
b. there are white caps. At first 1t wa
e a fayorite water resort Everybod,
h who had launch or a row boat wa,
b. out on 1t, but some dreadful accidents
d have occurred. AS you probably reat
IS some weeks ago five people wer,
e drowned. They were out in a launch
Something happened but what is no
known. The young people who wer,
y well and fayorably known were fount
70 some days later but the launch hal
1T not been found. People had to lear
g that they wore dealing with a new
d and powerful element, lake. PEG
u pie who live on the great lakes dom
le take the chances that people who liv,
'e on the Mississippi have been taking
'r They knew the river and knew wha
ID they could do on it. But the new
Lake Cooper was putting them in new