The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-04
CITY NEWS

day matinee and night, March 9th.
Seats now selling.
Lewis e. Lowery has rendered his
resignation as substitute clerk in the
keokuk post office.
The Des Moines Register and
Leader of yesterday contained a pic
ture of senator E. P. McManus.
Rock Island passenger and mail
train No. 40 was over an hour late.
arriving i'll the city this afternoon.
1t is President Taft now and Mr..
Roosevelt should be spoken of hero,
after as mere Mr.. Roosevelt, or ex.
President Roosevelt.
The box office at the Grand will
be open from s to 8 tonight. Lena
Rivers and THE Three Twins" seat
sale.
Regular meeting of Puckechetuck
encampment No. Z, I. o. o. F., at Odd
Fellows hall at O'Clock tonight. Wis
iting brethren fraternally invited to
attend. Work in the Golden Rule de.
gree.
A dance was given last evening in
/! Hawkes. hall by Mrs M. Corse, dane
ing teacher of Fort Madison. A large
number of young persons enjoyed
the evening from $50 until IL O'Clock.
According to the calendars, there
will be full moon on next Saturday.
The moon has been getting in some
! good work this week and the electric
lights are taking a rest.
-Masonic-Special meeting of
Eagle lodge No. 10, A. F. and A. NJ,
1880 o'clock, Friday evening, March
j 5, 1908. Work on LIST degree. Visit.
ing brethren fraternally invited BY
order of the w. NJ S. H. Johnston
secretary.
Carl Busch, the German wrestler
who has appeared before the Keokul
1 public several times recently will NEE
Tom Watson in catch-as- catch-car
match on Saturday of this week at thu
Pennington opera house. Tie bes
two falls out of three will decide TIL,
winner
The annua meeting of The Benev
client Union is to be held tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock at the Home ant
a large attendance is desired. The re
!, ports of the year will be received ant
officers will be elected for the ensuin;
. year. Besides the annual meeting, tn
,, regular monthly meeting will be he'll
at the same time.
The chemical responded to fir
call from Park and f streets, at "a
yesterday afternoon where weeds O
the bluff in that locality had caugh
, fire and were burning briskly whe
the engine arrived. At $3.50 genera
e alarm was turned in and the entir
department made the long run bac
q in the west end. The fire was e,
tinguished by the chemical
A large number of Keokuk youn
e people attended the dance given i
t. Warsaw last evening by the Girl!
c club in that city. Music was furnish
/ ed by the Agne orchestra. Their
d were enough persons who took tn
5, trip to warrant the holding Of the il
terurban by the street car oompan
! until twelve o'clock.
5; 1t is reported that several locs
l. men will build a large boat house o
J. the levee and maintain the same b
l. renting boats and launches and sci
J. ing bait and other necessities to fisl
G ing and pleasure parties for the cou
Ing summer season The idea woul
# be capital one if carried out ar
o would no doubt pay the proprietor
g well.
!. Last evening at 9:05 o'clock th
q fire department made run to til
q home of VIM Morgan on Fourth stree
Il between Exchange and Bank streets
n A chair upon which some bedding wa
!. placed, was too near hot stove
an upstairs room and the blaze wa
:, lively one The chemical engin
= was used to put out the fire before an
great amount of damage had bee
done
The Pinkerton detective who ha
been working on the Rosen murde
case visited Junkin in the Des Moline
= Jail Yesterday and Junkin told hi
q just in what position the dead girl VIZ
: lying, after having said the day b
fore that two white men had kille
her and carried her away while |
hid behind tree. Junkin alone
guilty of the crime and his second co
D fessior is not believed by the official
A Des Moines paper says that sever
N women have telephoned to the ia
asking permission to send flowers
the negro.