The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-28
CITY NEWS.

4 Il W. 10
day.
Seven big pictures at Dodge's to-
| night.
Insure with B. B. Hobbs.
Silk petticoa.s, black and colors,
1925 to $500. Central store.
The Fisherman is one of the best
! pictures ever shown at Dodges. See
it tonight.
Use Wanda coffee, its the best,
25c pound. Home Tea Co. Both
| phones.
Outing flannels, &c, 1-sc, 10c
121ac yard. Large assortments Cen
1 trail.
October to are the dates of the
free fall celebration in Keokuk. II
will be lively week.
a Grave Disappointment" a new
Pathe picture at Dodge's tonight.
The board of health officers got
busy yesterday and ordered the prem
isses of Mrs. Grimsley at Seventh and
| Morgan streets, cleaned.
Everyone that was at Dodges'
theatre last night pronounced the bill
one of the best of the season. The
same big program of seven pictures
will be shown tonight.
IT. H. Goodwin of Keefer, Okla,
| who has been attending the Soldiers
| reunion at Bloomfield is quite i'll at his
brothers home, 519 North Tenth
! street.
Railroad men say that the freight
business is heavier this fall than it
has been for several years. Extra
freights have been daily occurrences
on the K. & w. and K line routes.
Training Bulls For the Fight" is
another great picture at Dodge's.
| Fall hosiery and underwear nov
ready for inspection. Central.
A driving horse fell dead at the
corner of Eleventh and Concert streets
last evening shortly after 10 o'clock.
The body was hauled away late at
night.
He Tried on Hand Cuffs" a new
picture at Dodge's tonight.
Franklin was called upon this
morning to mourn the death of two
more Of her citizens Mrs. Mary D.
Colt died last evening at 900 O'Clock
at the age Of Il years, and Mrs. Mag
dalena Weber wife of Jacob Weber.
died this morning at o'clock, aged
SO years.
Quincy Wing: II regret to state
that the fremont deal is off" is the
message G.. A. Urban received from S.
A. Lolan, sent from ST. Louis last
night. There was nothing to indicate
the reason for the representative of
the John Scott company changing his
mind SO suddenly, as he intimated
when he was here Saturday that he
expected to close the deal in day or
two.
Word received in this city from
Ralph Leake, who left the tenth of the
month for Baltimore, Nd, to accept
the physical dictatorship of the Cen
trail Young Mems Christian associa-
ton of that city, states that the Cen
trail Y. won the first place in the
Municipal meet there week ago, win
ming forty-two points of 1000 entries
The next nearest competing Y won
but twety-three points. Ralph went
to Washington, D. c., last Saturday
: to attend the handicap meet of the A
A. U. He is comfortably located and
likes the work in the eastern city
greatly.
See THE Fishermen" scenic pic.
ture at Dodgcs tonight.
Fritz Stebinger was arrested by
, Officers Freeman at his home on Main
street between Eleventh and Twelfth
! after doing a Carrie Nation act, in
, smashing the windows in the Draine
, ice cream parlor Stebinger has spells
of destruction at various times and
when the notion seizes him, he arms
himself with rocks and breaks win
dows. He was up in the superior
court this morning and plead not
guilty. He was taken over to the
county Jail in default of bond. The
man Is said to be not exactly right
, and an effort will likely be made to
, have him taken care Of
The action of the Chicago city
, council in ordering every steam rail
way entering the city, to equip its
locomotives with electrical power by
January, 1912. opens up a good field
for the Keokuk water power, which
could furnish the electrical power for
the operating Of the many railroads
entering Chicago. Whether the Chi
cago council can enforce its orders or
not, remains to be seen. but If it does,
> the railroads will have to spend sew
eral millions in putting electrical en-
gines in use when entering Chicago.
Keokuk can furnish the power if call
ed on and will probably be ready in
1912 to do so.
Ancient skeptlcism.
The laughter, the tears and the