The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-02
CITY NEWS.


pennies in each 10c package.
For shoe repairing go to Henry
Brooks, the old reliable. 917h Main
The annual meeting of the Keo-
kuk club was held last evening the
following members of the old board
1 OF directors reelected: D. A. Collier,
4 Palmer Trimble, f. II. George, B. b
{ Hobbs and e. Carroll Taber. The
board will meet next week to elect Of
j ficers.
Bucks starch. 10c package. Two
pennies in each package. Try It.
The fire department answered a
still alarm at twelve o'clock this
noon. from the Office of the Hammond
| packing company, between Johnson
and Main on Sixth. where hot fiue
had caused the weather boarding and
| the outside wall to catch fire. The
blaze was extinguished with buckets
of water, this being the handiest way
to get at it. The damage Will probably
be twenty-five dollars
"A meeting of the board of oil
rectors of the Y. w. c.. A. was held
this afternoon at $50. The meeting
was the regular monthly session A
meeting of the membership commit
tee was held last evening and COM
pleted plans for the big campaign BAN
quet which is to be held On next Fri
day night. The campaign will end on
Thursday night. Only those who have
secured their two new members will
be present at the banquet on Friday
evening.
I'm the district court Of the United
States here the Fleischmann Company
of Cincinnati, Ohio, creditors on nine
notes and an open account, all to the
amount of $1,513.62, filed petition in
Involuntary bankruptcy against G f.
Prinzler, wholesale liquor dealer OF
Burlington, Des Moines county. The
petition states that the defendant ex-
ecuted mortgage to the Merchants
National Bank of Burlington, the
amount of which was $4,000, on all Of
| the real estate. Deputy Marshal Dun
lap went to Burlington today to serve
| the papers.
-mOu6y Sdv6u WHEN you Uuy loP
robes and blankets of Sherwood.
The last issue of The Show World
\ contained the following item from
Rock Island, which is of interest local
/ ly: Rock Island will have a new
i fifty thousand dollar theatre. The To-
cation has been secured and plans
completed. The building is to be an
Office building. the theatre alone to
cost $4,000, to be built under the di-
rection Of D. E. Hughes. It is claim,
i ed on good authority in Rock Island
that Klaw & Erlanger are back of the
i project. and that it will be another
| stronghold for the trust in the tri
I cities.
Quincy Wing: Crushed and bic ID
/ ing, Charles Lawrence, of Pittsburg
Mass, aged 20, ana Edward Camp, o.
St. Louis, aged IL, were brought here
last night on the Wabash train from
Barry. Ill.,. at s:05 O'Clock and were
conveyed to st Mary's hospital, th'
former in the police ambulance ant
the latter in the hospital ambulance
That either of them are alive is due
to one of the freaks OF fate, for, &C
cording to the story of Lawrence, boil
fell distance of forty feet down al
embankment when they made an at
tempt to alight from a freight train OF
the Wabash railway at the town in
dicated. The left leg Of Lawrence wa
shattered above the knee and CAM
had his left wrist broken, his face GU
and his back injured
To-day is All Souls day, day o
prayer for the dead. Special service
we're held In the three Catholi
churches of the city. The Catholi
church teaches that 1t is WHOLESOME
thought to pray for the dead, that the.
may be loosed from their sins. and o.
this day especially. the Christian fila
and eonsoIatory duty is practiced t.
the mercy of God. They are, laugh
: the value of prayer for the dead. eve
to the survivor, particularly IN thos
dark and dreary moments. when tn
heart is plunged in grief for the rec
ent loss of some beloved one, dea
wife. husband mother, father. sor
daughter, brother, sister or even
friend who has been torn away b
death and when every other resourc
fails, this comes To the relief OF tn
mourner.
!, The following Dispatch from Ceda
: Rapids tells OF the work being accom-
: plished by Rev. William Sunday !
. that city: Rain held down the attent
ance at the Sunday meetings yestei
:. day materially. but in spite of the ar
verse weather conditions 220 CONVEX:
ions were added to the list of Evange
list Sundays converts, bringing til
complete total Of the meetings up t
400 to date. A sum OF about S1,00
remains to be raised TO cover the e.
penses of the meetings, $500 havin
been already collected. Il now seem
possible that the meetings viii be e,
: tended over three weeks more, maxim
1t six weeks campaign instead {
FIVE as originally planned. This Doin
has not been definitely decided, bu
the prospects are that this step wi
be taken The Cedar Rapfds eafnDajg