The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-08
CITY NEWS

| st. Mary's Winter Festival tomor.
row evening. No chance books in the
hall.
A divorce was granted in the dis.
trict court yesterday in the case of
olive Ackley VS.. William E. Ackley.
Cut out the middfeman's profit
Buy piano direct from the factory
of the w w. Kimball Co. Easy pay
ments.
The regular monthly meeting OF |
the st. Josephs Auxiliary will be
held at the hospital Wednesday. De. |
cember 9th at $50 The meeting is |
open to all.
High quality and low prices are
selling Diamonds and Watches at
Ayres & Sons.
The three leading hotels of the
city had fine run yesterday and last
night. all being comfortably filled. The
arrival of jurors, witnesses and other
legal men from every part of the
city has hepled hotel business greatly.
-keokuk merchants never had SO
good an opportunity to present their
holiday announcements to the people
of Keokuk and surrounding country as
they have this year by using the big
circulation of The Gate City
Waterloo Courier: c. F. McFar-
land, tae 'Keokuk Firebrand," spoke
to an audience of about 200 men and
boys at the Y. NJ. G. A. yesterday af-
ternoon. The address was given the
closest attention and the hour was one
OF profit to those present.
Remember the cut prices at Ayres
& Sons on Cut Glass China, Statuary
Lamps, etc.
The jewelry stores of the city are
beginning to experience their annual
holiday rush. Many ladies were seen
on the streets this morning doing their
Christmas shopping, visiting many of
the clothing and other stores of the
city in search of suitable presents for
each member of the family.
Last evening at their regular lodge
session. keokuk lodge, No. IS, 1. o.
0. F. held their semi-annual election of
officers. Those elected for the ensu-
Ing six months were the following: H.
c. Miller, Noble Grand; S. E. Matthew
ey, Vice Grand; A G. Hershey, re-
cording secretary; Geo. w. Wright,
treasurer
An exhibition game of basket ball
viii be played on next Friday evening
at st. Peters Young Mems club gym
nasium between the Power City and
Club teams. The Power City team will
be represented by T. Hickey, j.
Hickey, Mccartney, Griffin and others.
while the Club team will be represent
ed by j. Crimmins, F. Crimmins. Shee.
han, Dickey and one other guard
Although golf enthusiasts very
often play their favorite game in the
snow and in the cold of winter, CO.
j kuk lovers of the sport have not fire.
/ quented the links during the recent
cold SPELL At Quincy, however. several
players were out on the links Sun
day. The Quincy Herald reporting the
i incident as follows: Joe Barlow, Lige
Young and Dean Richardson have
\ nerve enough to go with Roosevelt to
Africa shooting the gibbowackanoos.
ticus. the woozoozagarack and other
terrific wild monsters They were out
on the golf links playing yesterday
just like in the good old summer
time" The ground was so hard tl.ey
had to loft ball to putt out, and when
it rolled in. the snow it gathered
enough to make it as large as base
y They noticed some apparent pre-
sstoric tracks in the frozen ground.
which on investigation proved to be
those of Bishop Fawcett and President
Hillman, who had been out the day be-
fore