The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-06
CITY NEWS.

Attend Royal Neighbor card party
and dance Thursday evening, Oct. Z,
at NJ. w. A. hall.
-R. G. Schlotter is displaying in his
store window a gourd seven feet In
length. grown in yard in the city.
This is some gourd.
-Keokuk camp NV. A. No. 622
will ..oli Its regular meeting tonight
at Woodman hall. All members are re-
quested to be present.
business of unusual interest to
the members Of Keokuk aerie No.
6S3, requests their attendance at the
regular meeting tonight.
Mrs. A. E. Powell OF 5o3 Blondeau
is confined to her bed from an Injury
sustained a few days ago when q
street car hit a wagon at Sixth and
Main.
Eastern Star: Regular meeting Of
Elmira chapter No. 40, o. e. s.. Thurs
day evening. Oct. Z. 1915. at 1880
o'clock. Visiting members fraterna1ly
invited. BY order OF the w. M. Louie
p. Hahn. secretary.
-Keokuk men who have been grant
ed licenses to hunt are the following:
Conrad Seabold, George Barclay, F.
w. femme. Jr., C. Schowalter. Walter
Gross. Crayton Weldon, J..H. vanden-
berg. Frank Keppel, Jr.. VIM. F. Heer,
Joseph Doufek.
There will be preaching services
by the Rev. Dennis q. Park at the
Wende school house next Sunday aft
ernoon, Oct. 10, at 3 o'clock All IN
terested In services or Sunday school
at this place, should attend this ser.
vice.
The Quincy Ministerial union
would like to secure Rev. Bob Jones
for It's revival. Rev. Jones Is a south
erner and remarkably able man. Rev.
| Hartman. who spoke before the union,
says that he is the greatest gospel
preacher In the country. He has q
splendid organization OF singers and
would make an excellent man for
Quincy IL he could be secured. He Is
at present at Mansfield, o. Quincy
pastors who have heard him, speak
very highly OF his ability.
| The United States steamer Grace
seventy tons. sank in twelve feet OF
water in the Mississippi near lie
Claire last night, but no one was In
! iured The steamer was being used
/ in the construction OF the governme emf
/ canal over the LIE Claire RAPIDS. II
had been moored for the night along
side burkboat. and two members OF
! the crew were on board. They were
awakened when the boat started tc
/ sink and jumped to the bunkboat. II
is thought hole was stove in the
bottom az the boat was being run fr
for the night. The steamer will be
raised at once.
/ The Iowa weather and crop ser
vice bulletin for the week ending DC
tober has Just been issued as fol
Iowa: The week was cool, cloudy, ant
over the northern counties showery
although the rainfall was general.
LEGS than the normal. The week al
a whole was fairly favorable and corr
made rapid progress toward maturity
yet an average of more than 600 re
ports shows only 20 percent OF thu
crop safe from frost on October l
Over the southern half OF the stat
i probably two-thirds Of the crop Il
safe from injury except from a hare
freeze. but over the northern countie!
much OF the crop is still in the roast
ing ear stage and not very far ad
yanced in that Many fields failed Il
ifertiifze and have nothing but husk'
and an embryo cob. Rapid progress
was made during the week IN cutting
corn, flling silos. digging potatoe!
and blowing, and much wheat wa!
sown. The potato crop Is not up t.
expectations on account OF rot ant
blight. Grain threshed from stack !!
OF much better quality than tina
Ifbreshed from shock.