The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-07
CITY NEWS

! Congregational market at Benners,
z07 Main tomorrow morning.
Horses will be fed and cared for at
$40 Main street during the street fair.
A. j. Walter.
/ The will of the late Katherine
/ Johnson was admitted for probate this
morning in the District court.
Regular meeting of herman Lodge
No. ZIG. !. 0. o. f.. this evening at
s o'clocA. Visiting brothers cordially
invited :.
A marriage license was issued this
morning to George Daley aged 81
years and Ethel Brooks, aged is, both
of Keokuk and both colored.
! The Superior court was closed this
morning for several hours, Judge
Mcnamara, Clerk O'Brien and Baliff
Markley were at the park hearing the
Democratic speaker.
| Walter Peters, graduate of the
Keokuk High school and also grad
uate of the State Agricultural College
has accepted the position of Assistant
! Professor Of Animal Husbandry at the
College at Ames, Iowa.
A large crowd of about fifty couples
attended the dance given by the
Hiawatha club in the Woodman hall
last evening. These affairs are well
attended and are to be given each
evening during the fair.
Street fair special stove room sale
for Thursday from Z a. m. till 6 p.
m. Regular 75c celebrated blue gran
lite Missouri cereal cookers, or double
boilers, at 47c each. Limit of one to
a customer. Duncan-Schell Furn. Co.
Mack WAND was up in the superior
court this morning. charged with hav-
ing stolen chair from in front of the
Grand Hotel. He admitted having the
chair, but said that he did not know
it belonged to the hotel. He was SEN
fenced to Is days in the county Jail.
He was former employee of the
steamer Eloise but was discharged
yesterday.
Special Street Fair sale for Thurs
day from till p. m. William A.
Rogers best standard silverware
Regular 50 and $3.50 per set teaspoons
at 12c each; regular $3.50 and $3.50
per set tablespoons at 24c each: reg
ular SO and $3.50 per set desert spoons
at 21c each; regular $500 and $3.50
per dozen knives at 24c each; regular
$3.50 and $500 per dozen forks at
int of 81, II; II,
customer. Duncan-Schell Furn. Co.
W. F. Mann, the well-known pro-
Queer and manager. has added anoth-
err laurel to his credit when he sue
ceeded in engaging Lem B. Parker to
dramatic Tempest and Sunshine"
from Mary j. Holmes novel of the
same name. The play is first class in
every particular and will be seen at
the Grand tomorrow evening
| The state board of parole is trying
to educate the county attorneys and
other officials of the state to use the
fndeterminate sentence law to return
criminals to the penitentiary without
trial when they commit a crime while
on parole. One of the chief reasons
for passing the indeterminate sentence
law was that it obviates the necessity
for further trials. Under it when pa
rolled convict commits a crime he can
be returned to the penitentiary to
serve the unexpired time without fur
Their trial and can be left in to the
maximum. Many county officials are
paying no attnetion to this feature and
are going to the expense of trying a
man second time and giving him
further sentence. The other day a pa
rolled convict from Anamosa broke into
freight car in Des Moines. The man
had served less than one year for a
previous crime. The maximum time
for that crime is four years. He could
have been returned and made to serve
the full time of over three years re-
naming Instead the Polk county Of
f1cials went to the expense Of trying
him again and then sentenced him to