The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-28
CITY NEWS.

-Ewer's Grand Leader, best &c cigar.
-Wanted-Horses to clip at Blake
& loves, horseshoers, sos Johnson St
Edward w. Moore has decided to
Clara J. Pelgen and Josephine Pelgen
lot 7 in block no. The consideration
is not stated in the deed filed.
The teachers committee OF the
board of education will meet Thurs
day evening to take up the matter
of teachers for the next school year.
The body of John v. Sand, who
died in this city on October %, was
removed from the vault and inferred
in Oakland cemetery yesterday after
noon
Acting Mayor Charles Of will
introduce the speakers this evening at
the opera house meeting when Mayor
| Mathis of Des Moines and Commits
sioner e. A. Sherman of Cedar Rapids
give talks upon the commission plan
of government.
TIL, five boys arrested yesterday
bv Marshal Kesselring for shooting
craps. were taken up to the superior
4 court late yesterday afternoon. Stack
and Chandler plead guilty and were
given 80 days in jail. Westerneid
plead not guilty. Johnson and Cox
; we're released, not having been in the
game but merely being onlookers.
Captain Walter A. Blair OF tne
White Collar line of steamboats, ane
marty will leave on Saturday IRON
Rock Island on their way south e
the Cumberland river. The boat VII
remain south little over week ane
Il return to Rock Island by the 18th o
II next month. The Helen Blair Will o.
the boat on which the trip VIII o.
II made.
II Following are the Central assc
II citation results of yesterday: Burling
Il ton, Z; Monmouth, 3; Kewanee, .
II Macomb. /; Hannibal, Z; Cedar Raj
/ ids. 5; Quincy, IA; Athletics (Quinc
semi-pro team, 4. In the Hannlpa
II Cedar Rapids game. Kraft, the SOUR
II nav who pitched so well the other da!
Il struck out fifteen Cedar Rapids bat.
II men.
II A dispatch from Pennington says
| Forty-seven hundred dollars worth
eggs were bought and sold in the littl
town of Pennington last week. Th
II total number of cases handled was IS
II The farmers of this vicinity delivere
II 12210 dozen during the week, tot
of 14e.520 eggs. The remainder OF II
weeks delivery consisted of 374 cast
bought from other towns.
This evening at the Grand opel
house will be held a public meetin
at which the benefits of the commi
sion plan of government for citi
will be told by the mayor OF d
Moines and one of the commissions
u of Cedar Rapids, two cities in low
which have adopted the plan and
. well pleased with it. The speake
will be A. ]. Mathis, mayor OF D
y Moines and Earnest A. Sherman
II Cedar Rapids.
AT last that hole in Sixth sire
u between lain street and Lucas aN
g. nue. is being filled up, the repairs
the sewer having been made, ele
Il. teen feet under ground and today t
hole was being filled up with ear
again. Four links of the telephone CT
duit was loosened during the exca'
. ton and it took considerable We
II this morning to get this back II
shane. during the operation of Will
the tiling was badly Clipped. 1t b
been about three weeks since the VIC
first began on this hole which W
caused by the breaking of an
stone sewer which has now been
placed with iron pipes.
-Luttke. who has been trying {
for second base with the Indians
the past few weeks, received a tie
gram today from Guthrie, Okla. a
will leave as soon as possible to
cept a baseball job there. Luttke Is
good man but Belt does not think h
the equal of Grednick and hence
release followed DeSilve. the pitcf
released. left last evening on l-li
train No. Is at 1886, and is now on
return to Nebraska, his home DeSil
lis a wild sort of player and did I
divulge any pitching ability II
would warrant his berth on the X
kuk team Reader, the outfielder W
has been let go. is still here. but B
is trying hard to land him a job.
j is good man and positions are .pler
II III for those kind of players.