The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26
CITY NEWS.

Use Gate City want ad.
Skate at Gate City Roller Rink.
-Lipton's Ceylon and India tea.
Buy it at Reck's grocery.
Across the Great Divide" at
Dodges tomorrow night.
brothers" is great picture.
See it at Dodges tonight.
The headquarters Of the humane
society now has telephone, it being
the Iowa, number 712-B.
The date of the Pittsburg- Detroit
pictures at Dodges has been changed
to Thursday and Friday this week.
Mrs. Ella Marder has been select
ed to fill the vacancy as organist IN
st. Mary's Catholic church choir.
Reserved seats sold for Wednes-
day matinee will be good for the
matinee Thursday instead, as the pic
lures of the Pittsburg Detroit games
will be shown on Thursday and Fri
day.
An effort will be made to start
the bowling season next week. Those
merchants desiring to enter teams are
urged not to delay about completing
arrangements, as it will be neces-
sary to draw up schedule as soon
as possible.
Secretary w. A. Scott OF the
Houston \. NJ. c. A., formerly of the
Keokuk association has sent some of
his friends here, an envelope full of
literature containing the new year
book of his association, with illustra-
lions Of the building and departments.
sion is not likely at any time in the
near future, and perhaps may never,
prescribe any standard of steel rails
to be used by railroads engaged in in
terstate commerce. The Block Signal
and Train Control Board, which was
appointed by the commission by
authority of specific act of congress
to investigate and report on the use
and necessity of block signal systems
and other safety appliances, is now in
session at Washington formulating its
report to congress. Besides reporting
upon block signal systems and other
appliances which have been presented
to it, designed for the safer operation
of trains, the board will also comment
on investigations which it has made
on the subject of steel rails and also
npon Investigations which have been
conducted by the carriers themselves.
Captain Tom sherwood of Dav-
export, a veteran river man, was Is
years old Saturday and is still active
ly engaged in building barges. He
saw the first active river service
on the steamer Clara Dean, which he
ran between Pittsburg and Louisville
on the Ohio river in 1850. Later he
ran the steamer A. H. Mason be
tween st. Louis and st. Paul on the
Mississippi river. This brought hin
to Davenport for the first time il
t1S53. The Mason was sunk on the
Duck Creek chain just above Daven
port "a few years later. Then CAP
: tain sherwood was with the North
ern Line Packet company continu
ously for fourteen years. This gay
; him considerable service on variou
Mississippi river steamers durin
that period. He has made his HON
at LeClaire and at Davenport at var
. GUS times during the last few years
Burlington Hawk-Eye: A ba
colored man was arrested by Office
: Loney Anderson last night. The nj
gro was drunk and in an ugly mood
( and threatened to do all sorts Q
: things to the officer and to the polio
!. force in general. Anderson took n
' chances with the fellow. Whe
) brought to the station, and searche
E the fellow said his name was Harr
!. Delmar but the officers are of tn
t opinion that he is Harry Berry, ba
!. man from Keokuk. He had a bi,
! loaded revolver and four razors, an
v was evidently ready and looking fc
4 all kinds of trouble. If the Office
had not been alert he might hay
: shared the fate of officer Countr
man, who was shot down by a ba
= negro several weeks ago. Thes
bad coons'' are becoming serior
g problem, and the officers are begi
ming to wonder what is to be don
especially if juries turn them loos
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