The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-30
CITY NEWS.

Smoke Moellers Silver Ash cigar
-Roll-a-way every afternoon and
evening.
Tomorrow will be the last day of
the year
Many new features will strength
en- the second production of "A .liSnt
in Bohemia to be presented Thursday
evening at st. Peters hall
Mrs. G. Walter Barr received
telegram today announcing that her
mother was seriously sick. Mrs.
Barr left this afternoon for Lawrence
vile, Ill.
Might and Day" by Mr. John Nod
Ter will be heard by all who attend "a
Night in Bohemia" at st. Peters hall,
Thursday evening. Admission So
cents, children % cents.
The temperature this year is about
the same as it was last year at this
time. December 90, 1907, the Their
mometer registered SO degrees and the
same date this year registered So de-
grees above zero
The assessors of Lee county met
yesterday at Fort adison with County
Auditor South to receive their annual
supplies and instructions. S. H. John
ston of Kcokuk was present at the
meeting.
Just five years ago today. the great
Iroquis fire which destroyed the lives
of six hundred people. broke out in
the city of Chicago. causing the ter
rible calamity in which several Keo-
kuk people lost their lives.
Quiet prevails around the local
hotels just now. The usual holiday
slump in hotel business is on. Few
travelling men are now on the road,
and the registers in all the hotels show
the effects. The falling off of business
is about on par with last year.
A marriage license was issued yes
terday afternoon to John Edward Dan
ford, aged % years, and Miss Lora
Eta High, aged IL years, both of Keo
kuk. The girl being under age, had
the written consent of her father, AL
bert High. license being issued.
There will be plenty doing in the
city again on New Years eve, day and
night, to keep the younger set amused
Several dances will be given, roller
skating Kinks and theatres and on
New Years night parties and dances
will be in vogue SO that there will be
| plenty doing
Dealers in cement and others inter
ested in the encouragement of its use
have received notice of the fifth an
nual convention of the Iowa Associa-
| ton of Cement Users to be held in Des
Moines February 2, 3 and 4. The
convention headquarters will be at the
Slavery hotel.
Sunday afternoon at the Crane
opera house lecture on Christian
Science will be delivered by William
G. Ewing of Chicago The public o
Keokuk is to be congratulated upol
the opportunity to hear such an abb
lecturer on such a popular subject a
Christian Science.
i After hard months work, selling
the clerks and managers of the Keo
kuk stores are now entering the reg
ular annual invoice season. In msn
large establishments this task is 9.
the tapis for the present week, who
a slump in business is always locke
fc-.
The mailmen are now enjoying
respite from the grilling amount G
overwork that prevailed just prior
Christmas The belated presents wer
delivered by Saturday of last weel
and the usual gist CT business noy
seems snap" to the postman VIII
for a period of two weeks has bee
human dray wagon.
Quincy Herald: John And ersoi
chief of the Keokuk fire department
came down yesterday to see the aut
engine at work. Keokuk has the
4 | rect pressure system and does not us
j steamers and has no use for autos, br
as an old fireman Chief Anderson ha
a hankering desire to see one of til
new-fangled machines. He saw an
expressed himself as satisfied that tn
motor engine will supplant the steam
. err The visitor has been a firema
] in Keokuk for thirty-one years and ha
held the position of chief three year
He and Buck Hade are old tim
i friends, and when they get tcgethe
telling stories of the time when Ke'
kuk and Quincy We're the only cite
on the Mississippi river, and the fan
GUS Indian mounds of today, wer
mere holes in the ground, the waite
in the heater under the No. q engin
began to bubble and gurgle, half
glee and half in pentup agon,
There's always yarn fest when Al
3 derson comes to town and it is ON re
ord that Anderson is che of the yer
4 few men who can beat Buck to it an
leave him painting for breath on til