The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-16


of the opera house for about thirty
years and was we'll advanced in life.
He leaves five children, four of whom
are sons and one daughter.
The eighth annual meeting OF the
Upper Mississippi River Improve
ment Association will be held at Win
ona, Mimi, on October and Z. Keo-
kuk is entitled to number of dele
gates, to be appointed by the mayor
and. the commercial organizations,
who will be named in few days.
Miss NJ. Kings fall opening OF MIL
linery Saturday should be seen to be
appreciated S22 Main.
Owing to unavoidable delay in
completing the new building, the open
ing OF the Illinois Woman's college
has been postponed for two weeks,
from Sept % until Oct. 6. The close
of the college year will be extended
two weeks so that the semesters will
be the usual length.
Mcbride Millinery Cos advance
showing of fall millinery will be held
Saturday. 400 Main street.
IN. A. King went to Chicago last
evening and today is attending the
Giant Cub ball game at which Presi-
dent Taft is to be present. Following
few days in Chicago, he will go east
Manager Boyle of Waterloo. has
permitted Maurice Kent, his star
| twirler to leave the team Kent
coaches at Carleton, MINI. Next
spring Kent Will report at Cleveland.
There is a strong possibility that
Quincy may pass Waterloo and land
in fifth Mace.
Ladies should visit the Emporium
Saturday. Advance showing Of the
latest In millinery. 4o5 Main.
in anticipation OF possible coal
shortage, which the Burlington faces
every winter, the company is storing
thousands of tons of coal at Gales
burg, along the Peoria branch line.
The coal is being hauled to Gales
burg and piled on the same ground,
where several years ago during a
strike the company stored thousands
of tons, thus preventing a shortage
that surely would have come had the
company not prepared for just this
emergency
Saturday Miss NJ. King will dis
play her advance showing of fall mil
linery.
Tonight at the Christian church
Evangelists VIM. j. Lockhart and
Limit will conduct a service designed
| to give aid to those of a skeptical
turn of mind. There are a number to
be baptized and many converts expect
ed at this service On Friday evening
the subject Will Re Home a COM
panion service to the one held in
honor of mother. A great mass meet
ing for women only will be held next
Sunday afternoon at p. m.
Carl Busch, the big wrestler
known in Keokuk, is expected to cop
victory at Davenport, the Davenport
Democrat containing the following:
Betting on the big wrestling match
| between Carl Busch, champion OF Ger
many and Will Finley OF Wilton.
which is to be pulled off Tuesday
evening at the Grand Opera house al
Muscatine, is three to one with the
German favorite. Finrey Is much the
heavier but Busch is exceedingly
clever and although the Wilton boy
will be backed by sports from HIS
home town Busch fanciers have hare
time laying their coin.
The Emporium's fall millinery
opening Saturday. 4o5 Main.
The following relative to bridge
In Schuyler county. is from the Down
ing News: On Friday afternoon of las
week T. ]. Adams. his son VIII ant
Garrett Morgan attempted to drive {
team and wagon across the bridge
near the G. w. Mcconnell farm. The
bridge looked safe enough to them
but when they reached the middle the
old structure without warning doubled
up like a Jack knife and piled men
horses and wagon in prormiscuous
heap at the bottom Of the creel
/ about twenty feet down.
4 The Dominant Dollar" was the
last work Of Will Lillibridge who died
at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, In the
| spring. In his previous unusually
successful novel ben Blair" the auth
or depicted the life Of the plains In
a way that won universal admiration
In 1.-THE Dominant Dollar" he depicts
a different phase of western life. the
struggle for existence In western
college town. The dollar of the title
does not dominate the story, how
ever, for It is merely symbolical Of the
power the hero Yields by force oil
4 character. His requirement of 1t is
secondary. The story is most un
usuai one, keen character study, and
most dramatically told. Inc book Is
! issued nv A. O. McC1rIrp O. ~ III;