The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10
CITY NEWS.


Smoke Moeller's silver Ash cisar
Or Colby. Dentist, over Younker's
Screen doors and window screens /,
at Webers
The Trinity Young Mems club
will have social session next Friday
evening.
The new program at Dodge's
theatre is one of the best of the sea-
son. See it tonight
The triangular cadets Of the Y. M.
c. A. boys military company will
drill tonight with G. E. Mohler.
Alvin Kraft, Of the State Central
Savings bank, and Elmer Weismann,
of the Standard Oil company, have
gone to Chicago to spend their vaca
! ton.
Governor Carroll must sign some
thing over 1000 notarial commissions
before July /. Applications are pour
ing into the state house now In bunch
es. Many of them come to the sec
rotary Of states office. He has moth
ing to do with them except to counter
sign them. All applications should
come direct to Governor Carroll.
The indoor baseball games OF the
week are between the Congregational
and ST. Johns teams Wednesday
evening. and the C.-P. and Congrega-
tional and Presbyterian and Baptists
on Friday evening. The league sea-
son will close with this weeks games.
The base ball team is out on the
road this week and will not be home
until next Sunday when series Of
three games will be opened up with
Burlington. This afternoon the team
took part IN the opening Of the season
at ottumwa and after three games
there, goes to Waterloo.
The pressmen and press feeders
OF the newspaper offices and printing
shops OF Keokuk, met yesterday
morning in the Gate City building and
organized local union, applying for
a charter which they expect to receive
within a few days. When the charter
is received, the organization will be
perfected and the city will. have one
more labor union.
An old lady who says that hel
name is Mcconnell, and that she
thinks she lives in Dubuque, was put
off the train at Viewer the other night
not having any ticket and was sem
! down from there to Keokuk this after
: noon, being taken to the hospital fol
the present by Superintendent of the
Poor Fred Korschgen who will endeav
or to find out where she belongs. She
is supposed to have wandered ava.
from her home.
: The saloons may keep open OF
May 81 and on July this year, boil
of these holidays coming on Sunda.
but being celebrated on the day fol
:. lowing. This Is official, the attorne.
general having made announcement
q Of the fact that the law Of the stat
J does not regard postponed holidays Il
q the saloon question. Both Memoria
n day and July 4, fall on Sunday thi
year and whether Saturday or Mon
Il day is celebrated in city, the saloon
J MAJ keep open.
The Burgess law whirh wa
h passed by the state legislature an
e becomes effective on July 4, require
that all entrance and exit doors @
,e hotels, churches, schools, lodge halls
o. opera houses, court houses and publ
buildings, must swing outwards Thi
~ will cause great work in Keoku
T. for the greater majority OF hote
doors and lodge room doors no.
Is swing inward and they must be tai
is en- down and the hinges reverse,
There is probably not over two lodg
st rooms in Keokuk where the door
lie swing outward. The court hous
Of doors swing inward and so do mo.
of the church doors. Carpenters wi
cd reap harvest under this law an
Is. there will be many Keokuk doc
la changed within the next few week
Conductors on the local street cal
ed found the Rookie registers, recent
u.s. bought by the company in order tn;
L. more accurate records could be keI
entirely too slow and they have bee
ng done away with. In place of the re
he lister in which the passenger must p1
p. the nickle, one has been secured whit
is known as the International registe
ne This is suspended from the conductor
on belt and all that is necessary is for Il
Ia passenger to hand his fare to the co
ductor who records it by pulling
Ell little cord on. the register. When tt
H., crowd was large on a car it was {
he most impossible for a conductor
P. make fast time and the old regist
proved too slow. The one in pre-
ed ent use is the best the company h;
mt ever had and it is thought that the
to will be fixture.
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