The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-05
MRS, T. A. Davis and daughter Miss

Mrs. T. A. Davis and daughter Miss
WHO. have gone to Denver to reside.
Their householG goods were shipped
Thursday. They will visit In Pueblo
among relatives before ssttling down.
The doctor will remain q few weeks
longer.
On invitation Of the Mems club OF
Hamilton, Geo. P. Risto of this city
will address the club on Sunday aft
ernoop, April 5, his subject bsing
Can man be successful in BUSINESS
and be christian" Mr.. Risto Is a
bright and forceful speake>, and those
who 20 to hear him will be amply re-
paid.
John B Worthen is eiosing out
his stock OF groceries and queensware
being compelled to quit business on
account Of III health. He has been
nearly thirty years in business here
and has been quite successful. "
Oiling the streets in the resident
section of the city was suggested by
a citizen at the last city council meet
ing. the city to prepare the streets
and the citizens to pay for the OIL
and sprinkllng it. This is no new
idea for Warsaw. About ten years
ago Major M. Meigs of the U. S. gov
eminent canal. Keoku.s, was very
much interest I'd in oiling roads around
Keokuk and experimental satisfactor-
ily. so much so that out of the good
ness Of his heart he wanted neighbor-
ing towns to have the benefit OF It,
So hs offered to give ten barrels OF
crude oil free of cost and freight to
any town that would accept Of it. The
secretary OF the Warsaw Business
Mems association, after comforting
with several leading business man
and farmers, accepted Major Meigs'
Kind offer with many thanks and ten
barrels OF oil were received by boat
and placed in . corner OF tho STOCK
wards on the levse, and an effort at
once was mace to interest the road
commissioners in sprinkling q section
Of a road leading southeast from the
city as a test. No sprinkler being
available, or convertible and not suffi-
cient interest being manifested, what
little there was cooled on and II
.eemed that what was "everybody's
business was nobody's business" and
the matter was neglected so that IN
. few months the oil disappeared
some was stolen, some of the barrels
were bursted and contents soaked
into the ground. The writer USED ms
best endeavors for some time to have
this free gift utilized, but all in va1n'
very much to his chagrin an0 regret.
A good suggestion was made this
week by citizen and that Is that the
city buy a two horse street sweeper
one roller brush, not an expensive al
fair. and sweep Main street twice q
week. sprinkling before each sweep
ing It would make a neat street, and
he a feather in Warsaw's cap. and
the expense would not be great.
Complaint is made that Warsaw
filter Is not large enough. The firm
that built 1t guaranteed 1t to be large
enough for a city almost twice the
size of Warsaw, but that 1t should be
run day and night instead Of only in
daytime. The firm is one Of the osst
and most experienced in the country
and ought to know what 1t was talk
ing about.
Clarence Hambleton OF Hamilton
was q warsaw visitor yesteray.
Henry Clark will lecture at the
Methodist church Thursday evening
April 9, for the benefit Of Warsa"
high school athletics.
r. H. Bowen OF Hamilton was a
business visitor In Warsaw this morn
Ing.
warsaw's ferryboat will be almost
entirely new: the hull will be steel
and il being built at Keokuk; the Ole
engine and boiler will be used, the