The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-29
CITY NEWS.

Fresh fish and promptly deliv-
cry. Phone 1924. -,
New school dresses for the kid
dies, classy. SOC to IS. Lowitz.
A bottle of Leisy's Temp Brew
with your meals saves doctor bill.
Two dozen in case. Telephone 81.
"A marriage license was issued
to Fred G. Ealy, "a, of Montrose, and
Grace o. Meader, 25. Of Plattsburg,
N. Y.
-Keokuk camp M. W. A., No. 622.
will hold its regular meeting tonight
at Woodman hall All members are
requested to be present.
The industrial edition OF The
Gate City will be issued tomorrow
evening. Extra copies can be secur-
ed at this Office. 1t will cost cents
to mail single copy.
The firemen at the Sixth street
station have demonstrated that they
can do more than fight fires. For
this week they laid new floor IN
the station. And it is good job too.
There will be a meeting OF the
Pioneer Rivermen's association at
Midway Cafe, corner Raymond and
University avenues, st. Paul, Mimi,
Preached by the Minneapolis and St
Paul cars and about midway between
the business districts of the Twin
Cities) on Tuesday evening, Sep
.ember 4, 1917.
While the family was attending
the chautauqua last night, an automo-
bile belonging to Henry w. Kritchel.
who lives on the middle road about
three miles from Keokuk, was taken
from Fifteenth and Grand avenue
by ioy riders who later abandoned it
about three blocks below that point.
The car was taken between and 1e
o'clock last night and was not recov-
cred until 2 o'clock this morning.
The brake on the automobile was
broken.
"A car OF watermelons was on the
Rock Island tracks here yesterday.
A party of small boys with watering
mouths lowered near When no one
was looking, they hammered in the
gate at one end of the car and made
Off with dozen melons. The police
ora making an effort to apprehend
those responsible The car OF melons
was transferred from the Burlington
"a the Rock Island here for shipment
north.
The Iowa weather and crop bulle-
Tin for the week ending August rs.
has luSt Deen lSSueu dS Ioiio"o. az
week was rather cool, and over the
greater part OF the state was very
dry. The nights, especially, We're
very cool and there were only two or
three warm days. Light frost oc-
Cured in the extreme northwest por-
tion of the state on the morning OF
the 2sth, or one day later than last
r,ear The conditions were favorable
for threshing and for all outdoor
work. but the ground is too dry in
most sections for satisfactory plow-
inc though some OF that work Is
heing done. Corn made satisfactory
nrogress considering the cool wealth
or. but the crop is still late, ranging
rom fields just beginning to tassel
to the advanced roasting ear stage in
some of the earliest fields. The
outcome of the crop depends on the
weather during the next six weeks
Conditions must be much better than
normal to insure an average yield.
The late potato crop is-also in a pre-
carious condition, depending on
whether or not sufficient rain comes
during the next two weeks. Grass
hoppers have cleaned the meadows of
all aftermath in many localities In
the southern counties. Pasturage is
short in most sections and farmers
are feeding stock