The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-04
CITY NEWS.
Use the classified column.
Coffee, ST. Paul's hall, Thursday.
What has become OF the good ole

summer tAiAe - &c.
The lawn mower has been work.
Z ing overtime this season.
II. NJ. Furlong has been on the
sick list for several days, but is re.
ported to be Improving.
-Keokuk camp M. w. A. No. 622
will ..oll Its regular meeting tonight
lat Woodman hall. All members are re-
IQuested to be present.
--Pucketchetucl. lodge No. 43, meets
levery Friday evening at $500 o'cloe *
Geo. A. Burns, N. G.; George w. I'M
meagrt, permanent secretary.
I'm Springfield, Mo-, after fourth
election on the question OF adopting
! the commission form OF government.
| the proposition won by majority OF
two votes.
| Regular meeting Of Keokuk aerie
| No. 6S3, F. o. E.. tonight at Eagles
hall. 523 Main. at 8 o'clock Visiting
brothers always welcome. Chas. a.
Noakes, ecretary. Business OF I'M
portance
| Eastern Star: Regular meeting
of Elmira chapter No. 40, o. e. s.,
Thursday evening, Aug. 5, 1915, at 1880
O'Clock Work Visitors fraternally
invited. BY order Of w. NJ. Louie P.
Hahn, secretary.
Tomorrow will be the f1fty-fourth
anniversary Of the famous Battle OF
Athens" fought on the Des Moines
river few miles north Of Keokuk and
one Of the great events in the early
history of this section.
| The annual excursion OF the Park
Methodist church and Sunday school
OF Hannibal, to Keokuk and return,
scheduled for yesterday, was post
poned on account OF unfavorable
weather. It is possible the excursion
will be held later In the season.
| George H. Crandall and B. e.
Adams, the former from Chicago and
the latter from Detroit, representa-
Etives of the Anderson Electric Car
Co, were in the city today making
! arrangements for the sale OF their car
! in Keokuk and vicinity Their COM
pany makes the largest number of
| cars each year Of any electric factory.
William Lehew, an aged and high
~ respected citizen Of LAGRANGE, Mo-,
died Monday about noon. He had re-
sided in LAGRANGE for the past twen-
tty-fiye years and was devoted mem
Der of the Christian church. He had
been an invalid for four years, hav-
ing suffered from paralysis. An adopt
ed son, Henry, resides in Keokuk-
Fort Madison Gem City: Herman
Marsh, the unfortunate man who was
removed to the state hospital for the
| insane from this city, following an
examination into his sanity by the
icounty commissioners on insanity,
Friday, passed away at the Mt. Plea
SAINT institution Monday morning.
Marsh was the man who was brought
| to this city from Donnellson, where
/; his violent actions stirred the small
town and last Friday morning, while
confined in the county Jail here he
eluded his attendants and tore down
| the water pipes in the Jail, flooding
the building.
! Captain H. Edgar Wisherd has
been in Decatur and other cities along
/ the Wabash, boosting the big rail-river
/ excursion scheduled for next Sunday.
j The Wabash is to run a special ex-
cursion train from Decatur. through
Springfield, Jacksonville and Bluffs to
lKeokuk, where the crowd VIII go
iaboard the steamer G. w. Hill of the
Wisherd line for ride on Lake Coop
err to Fort Madison and back. The
Wabash in previous years. had excur-
| sions to Hannibal and from there the
crowd Travelled by boat to Quincy or
Keokuk. But different schedule was
arranged for this trip. The Hill will
be in Quincy Saturday for the annual
r. P. A. excursion. It also is to have
several other excursions out Of and
into Quincy during the following
week.
The Iowa weather and crop serv
ice bulletin for the week ending Aug
lust has Just been issued as follows:
Another week o. cool, cloudy and wet
weather has again prevented much
progress being made with haying
harvesting and threshing. The aver
age temperature was about 2 degrees
below the normal, but there was q
great excess of rainfall and cloudiness
In some localities the showers were
accompanied by high winds, which
together with the heavy rain, lodged
more timothy and grain, blew apples
from the trees and in a few instances
hattened corn. AS whole, the week
was very unfavorable except for corn
the crop is still backward and the
general condition is much below the
normal. On August 1st the average
condition was "a per cent, or % per
cent less than on August list last year
There still remains much uncut grain
some Of which has been ripe two TO
three weeks and the continued wet
weather has further damaged grain IN
shock and kept fields too soft to per
NIT binders to work. A large acreage
of wheat and oats will be abandoned
and much hay has been spoiled. Fruit
and truck crops continue In good con.
dition, although there are some COM
plants of potatoes rotting. On Aug.
ust 1st the average condition OF pas.
lures was 1903 per cent; potatoes, 102.
! fax. "a. Last year on August LIST the
condition of pastures was "a per cent;
potatoes, So and fax, 81.