The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-08
CITY NEWS.

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library is now in force, and the IL
brary is open evenings.
Born osMr. and Mrs. Raymond
seabold of Des Moines Valley. q ten
lpoung baby girl this morning.
Phone 81 for case of Leisy
beer when you're out--Adv.
Weatherman Gosewisch wants to
know whether the people who charged
him with the hot summer are giving
him credit for the October weather
this town has been enjoying.
Clerk Earnest E. Klann and City
Carrier Joseph g. Fiske O. the post
office will, exchange positions during
/ the middle Of the month Rural Car
| rier Holdefer is off duty, suffering from
an attack Of typhoid fever.
Enjoy a bottle of cool Puritas
beer at home after work or before
retiring at night. Nothing so health
I.ful and restful as good pure beer.
Puritas Is as good as the best. Phone
the brewery, Acknowledgement.
The new copper wiring work Of
the fire department was finished yes
terday. The Gamewell line connect
ing the central telephone office, the
police station. fire stations. was re-
wired. The work has been carried on
for some time
Many inquiries have been recefv-
ed at the Mississippi River Power
company Offices from professors In
colleges and universities asking for
picture and information concerning
the water power project. The pictures
are generally hung in the engineering
buildings.
Travellers on the night trains con
tinue to talk enthusiastically about
the magnificent spectacle the illumin-
alton of the Keokuk dam affords every
might and what dignified and COM
plete explanation OF the purpose of
the work 1t is.
/ After being quiet. all summer the
real estate market is more active, and
la number Of transactions have been
recorded within the last ten days.
Real estate men report solid and
rather intense interest in Keokuk
property.
/ The rest of the country is taking
q good deal Of interest in the unveiI-
ing of the statue of Chief Keokuk
and the newspapers will use much
news about it when it occurs, having
ALREADY ordered feature stories from
IKeokuk correspondents.
-Keokuk woodsmen report this
hickory nut crop rather short ant
the walnut crop about normal in guam
ltity. Many pillow cases full of nuts
are being brought to town by cit,
people who painfully pick them of
the trees with much exertion.
A state food inspector was in th'
city this week gathering few sam
pies Of various foods While he sir
red in and out quietly and visite'
many places no action was takel
against anybody for violations. It !!
understood. however, that the inspec
tor made few recommendation
which we're carried out.
The Burlington Hawk-Eye says
Mr.. ]. H. Coverdale, the government
expert. who has been working up ser
timent in Lee and Pottawattami
counties, was in the city yesterday
He expects to stir up Henry count
next. Regarding the local situation
it Is stated. that the arrangements ar
to be closed up here very soon, an
that Des Moines county farmers viii
soon have the opportunity to avail
themselves of the advice and service
of an expert agriculturist
After most of the men employe,
on salary in the building of the Keo
kuk water power have gone away, thu
demand for houses remains brisk, rea
estate men say. The secretary of tn,
retail merchants organization re
|rorts about as many new families
coming to Keokuk now as came during
the same time in the last severa
years. Business men say that Keo
kuk has passed the completion of tht
water power without any jolt OF con
sequence, and house owners find tn,
tsupply of tenants as large as ever
Some of the newcomers have hat
great difficulty in finding houses tt
rent, they say,
The announcement in last even
ing's Gate City that Keokuk had sue
ceeded in locating cemen
machine factory was good news
i 1t was news along the line
that was expected and de
sired. The outlook for Keokuk as {
factory city is getting better every
day Keokuk is now ready to give
A her attention to factory propositions
and with the big power dam in opera
ton and the rate case settled there
is no good reason why the factory an
nouncement made in The Gate City
last eveneing should not be followed
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