The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-19
CITY NEWS.
KNEE PANTS SPECIAL.

theatre.
See Prof Gyllick in Wonders in
Magic" at the Grand tomorrow night.
The new motion pictures at
Dodge's theatre are pleasing every one.
4 Sec them tonight.
Earl Hemenover who has been i'll
/! at his home for some time is able to
be up and around.
+. The Waterloo Courier. one of the
best papers in the state was fifty years
old yesterday and celebrated with a
4 golden anniversary numbe-.
A number of the larger cities Of
the country and smaller are today eel
ebrating the one hundredtl anniver-
sary OF the birth of Edgar Allen Poe,
i the poet.
"A meeting of the Trinity NJ. E.
Brotherhood will be held this evening
/ at the close of the revival meeting for
! the purpose of electing delegates to
/ the Federation Council which meets
in a short time
There will be meeting tomorrow
evening of the Colored Young Mems
4 Christian club at Masonic hall, to
which all are invited TO attend. The
meeting is called by F. S. Johnson.
! president and C. C. johnson, secretary
| of the club.
Next Saturday the first chapters of
| the serial story, The Redfelds,' by
Lillian w. Hale, will appear in this pa
per. 1t is a short but interesting SER
ial story. Be sure and get the opening
chapters. You will want to read the
complete story.
A man from Canton, who was Wis
iting in the city last evening, fell at
the foot of Johnson street and broke
his leg. He was placed on a cot and
taken home in the baggage car. A
couple of friends were with him and
looked after his needs.
One of the longest Wabash trains
that has left Keokuk in some time
pulled out this morning at $50 for the
east. Seventeen box cars and ten coal
cars made up the train. Much bust
ness is now being done by this short
line and business on the various roads
shows a gratifying increase.
My opening horse and mule sale
will be held Saturday. January %; sale
starts promptly at 1 o'clock. This sale
will be held the first and third Sat
urdays of every month in my new
sale barn and pavilion at Hamilton.
VIII have about $50 head OF good mar
ket and farm horses. B. w. Elder.
The new series Of POSTAGE stamps
contain the picture excepting the one
cent which bears a portrait of Frank
lin. This leaves Lincoln's face off
of an American stamp. 1t is likely
that a special two cent stamp bearing
the face of Lincoln will be issued and
on sale on February II, the birthday
of the immortal Lincoln.
A suit has been filed in the Dis
trict court by the Overtein-klein Co.
VS.. Thos w. Daw asking ror the fore
closure on a mortgage on lot and
! parts of lots and in block 81, given
to secure note for $4,000, which is
alleged to be unpaid A receiver is
asked for to collect the rents from the
property. Judgemnt is asked for $4,000
on the note and for interest and costs.
Physical Director R. E. Chamber
! lin has as yet received no replies from
Quincy to his letters asking for basket
! ball games. The letters were sent
more than month ago and keokuk
/ players are beginning to feel that the
/ Quincy aggregations fear them.
Keokuk's basket ball record during the
past two years has Travelled broadcast
/ and local managers are having diff
+ ficuity in obtaining games.
Something new in the way of ship
ment of fish from the Illinois river
(! is reported. A consignment from
Pekin to New York embracing 10000
/ pounds viii be shipped in tank car
/ belonging to one of the express COM
panies. The fish will be shipped
alive and wiz be supplied with
+ oxygen forced into the water of the
! tank through charcoal by a gasoline
engine. The experiment has been
tried and worked successfully but
this is the first large shipment that
has been made.
All OF the members Of the In.
I league are now busy at work getting
Z together clubs with which to open
! the season. Beardstown is trying to
4 purchase the Havana club entire. but
I IT is very doubtful if this will be
done. The Havana management can
get pretty good price for the club,
selling II out NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. than
any one town can pay. as ball players
are too plentiful to pay high price
for them in small league. Pekin
would ike TO nave some of them. but
they have contract about signed
with manager. 50 they are not par.
tic1lar about getting the entire bunch