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

C1l L IN IiNNS.
Read The Daily Gate City.
-Belknap Post. No. SIS. annual ball
at Schouten's hall, Dec. 16.
DO your Christmas shopping with
keokuk m erchants.
Chatting and baking dishes, nickle
plated ware. Merriam's hardware
store.
DO not be timid about informing
Gate City reporters of your news
items. They appreciate such help.
If the carrier service at your
home for The Daily Gate City is not
satisfactory please notify this office
Remember the closing out sale at
Ayres' OF cut glass, hand-painted
china. electric lamps and chafing
dishes.
Tell your neighbor about getting
complete newspaper for ten cents
week. The Daily Gate City contains
all the news
BY reading the amusement column
of this evenings paper it will be seen
that there is no lack of something do
ing.
If you want anything that belongs
to the jewelry business, you will find
it at Ayres & Sons, largest assert
ment and low prices.
This evening promises to be live
" one with the merchants. Main street
will be thronged with holiday pur-
chasers Before starting down town
read the advertising columns and
much Of your shopping will be deter
mined.
The merchants of keokuk who are
using The Gate City for their holiday
announcements are getting the largest
publicity ever given by Keokuk
newspaper The circulation of this
/ paper is extensive, both in and out of
/ the city. and is guaranteed and sworn
/ to by the publisher.
Next Wednesday evening in
/ Woodmen hall. there will be an in
/ teresting free lecture delivered by W
B. Townsend. whose topic will be
| Chips and Bark" The lecture will be
| illustrated and will be free to all, the
/ public being invited to attend and ar
especial invitation is extended to the
ladies'
&C. H. Gray. foreman of the Tai
bolt grain elevator. who was injured
BADLY by fall from a ladder the 9th
er day. is getting along nicely at tbs
hospital This will be good news to
his MANY friends and it is hoped that
he will soon entirely recover from
the effects of his injury which caused
cerebral compression of the brain.
There was another rehearsal las
evening of the "a Night in Bohemia
troupe, the big entertainment to b
given next Friday evening at tn
Grand opera house for the benefit O
, the base ball association Everythin.
is running smoothly and the perform
! ance promises to be one of the mos
enjoyable amateur entertainment
ever given in Keokuk
John Ripley. one OF the oldest an,
;, best known conductors in the emplo.
of the c., B. { @. railroad. wa seize
with stroke of paralysis as he star
ped from a train at Hinsdaie. hi
home. He is now reported to be in
very low condition and will probabl
not survive the shock. He ran be
tween Burlington and Chicago. Ri
ley was one of the most popular cor
ductors on the road and has been i
the service for nearly half centur,
joan Hall. the Creston iceman
in the city looking after his ice bus
ness which though it has not starte
), yet has force of men getting tn
chutes and tracks in condition for tn
handling of the ice after the first har
freeze and heavier ice. The ice q
u present is about three and a half il
u ches in thickness and not much ha
= been cut. An iceman stated this NOR
!. ing that as high as three and for
: hundred tons OF ice could be harves
: ed in day when the ice is of suffi
;, lent lickness.