The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-09
s.,.ITY NEWS

II AQVerLS0 IN Inc IdIo Slty.
, Maple leaf cheese at immigrants.
Keokuk High School VS.. Quincy
| Saturday.
There was fog this morning, thick
enough to cut with knife.
Tomorrow will be the last day OF the
celebration
A half dozen drunks were locked up
at the police station over night.
J, Services are being conducted each
evening at st. Peters Catholic church.
and will continue during the month OF
, October.
The w. R. C. dining room sold COM
, pletely out yesterday at dinner and
! had to turn customers away. There
, was a great rush for dinner.
The new cement walk has been COM
pleted on the Tenth street side OF the
|, Christian church, making nice
stretch now from Main to Blondeau
street.
, The report of the Cedar Rapids divi-
sion of the Rock Island shows that
during the month lib trains were run
on the division.
August O. Anderson has decided to
Joseph A. Becker lot 1, in block q,
Estes addition, the property being on
the corner of Seventeenth and Connect
streets.
} No trust or combination prices
} when you get AaA1 or Grace Mills
, -four. They are superior brands of
-four at reasonable price. and every
: sack guaranteed.
Street Fair Stove Room Special for
{ Saturday, Z a. m. till p. M. Regular
!, $3.50 "Porters" folding curtain stretch
ers at 73c each. Limit of one to a
{ customer Duncan-Schell Furn Co.
The drivers of vehicles through
Main street this morning had to pro-
coed with great caution as the fog
: was very dense and it was impossible
to see in advance for more than fifty
! feet
. Not single case of pocket picking
has been reported to the city marshal
so far during this week, which is some
r thing rather remarkable for a cele
DTdIlOQ OF lnlS KIM.
: Sneak thieves entered the residenc,
, of F. A. Wedler Wednesday evenin,
{ while the family We're down seein,
: the sights and robbed the place o
everything of value, including nun
Der of watches and other jewelry
Last evening at 6:15 some of tn
I street decorations near the corner O
N Fourth street, got on fire from the cleo
| trio wires and blazed up merrily TIL
| department was called out and tn
| blaze was extinguished before th
| street fair burned up. The damag
| was but slight.
II Out of the thirty families In Keoku
! taken care of by the superintendent O
| the poor, but eight of them are color
ed families and last winter there wer
! but six colored families under his care
| This is good showing for the colore
people OF Keokuk where their popula
ton is such large proportion OF TIN
city's people.
One OF the negroes who had his
| head In the hole OF one Of the bal
throwing racks yesterday Afternoon
was hit several times by a number
OF persons throwing the balls at his
head. The fellow became disguised
with his job of being target for the
public to throw base balls at three fol
a nickle that he quit and demanded
his money.
| 1t will be of interest to Scandinav
| ian people that the Rev. L. Hagen
| who will give sketches of Norwegian
Life and Customs" at the Evangelical
song services and missions festival
is native of Norway Rev Hagel
will be glad to meet countrymen of hi
next Sunday at Warsaw, and whe,
preferred will give a short talk in tn,
mother tongue
III The superiority of the Gate City
telegraph service was no better show
than the full report last evening of tn
III base ball game at New York City, tn
worlds greatest game up to this tim,
III The United Press report was the onl
complete and full one received by an
III evening papers around in this part {
the country and as usual the Gate Cit
gave Its readers the best of it.
Hill The reason why the balloon ascer
sions by Lee Planet are such grea
success this week is because his ba
iii loon is made out Of old tympan sheet
II from newspaper offices. The tympa
II sheet is cloth part Of printin
iii press upon which the type is impress
iii ed and the big balloon is formed {
II these sheets, the sections shown
II where pages Of newspaper had bee
II printed.