The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10
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Smoke Moellers Silver Ash cigar
The ground hog was pretty wise
old codger after all.
do not forget the James j. Corbett
matinee and evening performance nest
Saturday.
Gate City want adds brings re.
suits. AS cheap and effective adver-
Using method there is nothing in Keo-
kuk that can equal this department.
The pool tournament at the Keo-
kuk club will likely be brought to a
close this week. The winner OF the
Elder (SO) Cochrane uOO) match will
meet F. H. George in the finals.
Superintendent Armstrong OF the
T. P. & w. was in the city today in
attendance at the depot meeting. Mr.
Armstrong has headquarters in Peoria
and arrived in a private car last even
ing.
versy about keeping the Japs out of
the country was spent on trying to
keep Jack Frost out of the country.
the public at large would be more in
terested.
The directors of tie Hannibal
union depot at their meeting in that
city yesterday decided to have three
more arc lights placed under the sheds
at the depot in that city Several arc
lights would greatly improve the light
situation at the Keokuk union depot.
The weather reports of this morn
ing do not show any very cold spots
in the country excepting in the ex-
IRENE north. At Omaha it was 2 above
this morning, at st. Paul 4, at Des
Moines s, at Chicago -, at st. Louis
IA. at Keokuk, Kansas City and La
Crosse 8. Denver shows a rise of %
degrees.
Quite large number of railroad
officials are in the city today attend
ing the annual meeting of the keo-
kuk Union depot The gentlemen con.
vened in rooms over the station and
considered repairs and building work
to be done on the depot during the
coming spring and summer and also
to elect officers for the coming year
A number of the officials arrived N
| private cars and were accompanied
by their wives.
burlington Gazette: The time ha!
come when the West Burlington shops
are unable to handle all the locomotive
repairing of the Iowa district ant
henceforth no small engines will b.
taken care of here Only the locomo
tives of the largest type will be re
paired. the smaller engines being sen
/ to the shops at Beardstown. Ill. On,
of the switch engines of the loca
yards was sent to Beardstown yester
day for that purpose.
Whenever Billy Sunday can get
chance, he refers to his big league CO
reer. The ST. Louis Republic says hi
big league record is nothing great an
he would not have remained as lon
as he did had it not been for his e>
@eptionally fast foot work, because h
ould not field or hit. 1t is even in
situated that Sunday never even sa,
the big stars of his day in action TIL
Hawk-Eye says the Republic is III
fair to Sunday, and it is also unfair t
the Chicago baseball management
which employed Sunday Had tn
evangelist not been ball player {
the first-class. it is absurd to say h
would have been kept on the worl
championship team
Mrs. Hannah Yeiser. wife
Abraham Yeiser. was pleasantly SUI
Iprised last night by Mrs. M. Ellie
Dixon. The occasion was the sevent
seventh birthday of Mrs Yeiser, WI
with her husband was requested la
evening to call at Mrs. Dixon's G
business. When they arrived 70,
course dinner and score of frient
were waiting to receive and be r
ceived. Seventy-seven Christmas ca
dies indicating the age of her mot
er made brilliant the table surrounde
: by the honored mother and friend
: Those present We're: Rev. VIM. We
; cradle and wife, John Thomas al
: wife, Mrs Emma Teabeau, Mrs. Hi
Mrs. Pyles, Mrs. M. ]. Dow. Mrs. HI
= land, Miss E. Henderson. Mrs Mat
da Dandrige. Mrs. j Freeman, Mr.. al
: Mrs. VIM. Dixon and others.