The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-22
CITY NEWS.

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Ewer's Grand Leader, best &c cigar.
\ Ewers, Mccarthy for boys cloth
ing.
j Blankets and lap robes at sher-
woods
| Home Tea Co. for Christmas
presents.
| Merchants report very satisfac-
tory holiday trade.
| Place your order early with
| Markley for nice chicken or goose.
Box Pennant cigars makes a suit
| able gift. Buy them at Anderson's.
Holly finest Delaware-full OF
red berries at Wolfe's, 7o5 Main
street.
| Choice turkeys, chickens and
| ducks for Christmas at Haubert's,
both pnones.
| AL Keokuk retail grocery stores
will close on Christmas day at 1900
| O'Clock in the morning.
| Telephone Paul T. Pechstein for
a case of Purtas or good liquors. No
delivery Christmas, both phones 139.
Dolls and toys Of all kinds at
| Wolfe's.
/ Clerk H. T. Moore sent out the
Icall today for the special meeting Of
the council, which is to be held this
evening.
| A marriage license was obtained
,late yesterday afternoon by Miss Eva
| A. Reed, age 81, and Charles e. Hol-
!! Eland, age 81.
-Keokuk Camp M. w. A. No. 622
will hold its regular meeting tonight
at Woodman hall All members are
requested to be present.
pen Pictures OF Early Western
Days" is by local author. Make
some one happy by presenting them
with a copy as Christmas gift.
Fifty cases of James e. Peppers
/ seven year old whisky bottled in bond
Order of Paul T. Pechstein, both
phones 139 No deliveries Christmas.
: u. w. Lunden. of New Boston, re-
+ ported to police headquarters that he
lost horse blanket and quit. which
were stolen from his sled on the
Imarket grounds, Twelfth street, about
I2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
People living along the rural
mail routes in the country on Christ
mas day and for several days before,
place articles in the mail boxes as
Fl holiday gifts for the carriers Butter,
dressed poultry, jars and cans OF
= lIfruits and vegetables and other things
are left for the carrier.
I'm the superior court today suit
was brought by the Citizens Mutual
= Bank of Donnellson against John
Haffner and Rosa Haffner, to recover
. on promissory note, the amount Of
- which is $4,000 and the date Of execu
ton September 3, 1907. The plain
tiff wants Judgment in the sum Of
s3.7sT64 with interest from each Of
the defendants.
The Mt. Pleasant papers are hay
ing considerable to say about tn
change of train service on the Nortl
Road. When the change was frs
made a number OF the Salem mel
chants signed petition requesting
the service be restored to the old car
but later they indicated their satisfas
ton with the present arrangement
The only fault that is being foun
M VIII Lie II Gill VI ally SOiciONAaOA
consequence is that it arrives in Ket
, II kuk too late to give the people OF
portunity to transact all of the bus
ness they desire. Keokuk and SaleI
are well pleased with the preser
train service but they are displease
with the tardy arrival Of the trai
into Keokuk. If the operating official
will remove this objection there wi
be very little complaint.
Burlington Gazette: Last wee
was week OF odd experiences *
several Burlington people. For i
stance. the coolest night of the wee
D II Dr. A. C. Moerke received a call
home in Lincolnville A woma
had dislocated her jaw while yaw
!, ing. She was in considerable pa
and the doctor was summoned. TT
I doctor mercifully left his horse stan
/ II ing in the barn and walked out
| II the residence. In the meantime tt
/ II husband of the woman held her hea
1 in attempting to allay the pain but
II getting up to answer the Doctors rir
1 at the door, he accidentally Jared
III wife's jaw and it slipped back
| i place. The injury being repaire
there was nothing for the doctor
do but to take the long, cold wa
back home. He had made a fruitle
II trip.
Two Burlington gas compani
. made a proposition to the city to fl
nish gas for 81 per cubic thousal
feet, but the proposition was turn,
down, at the council meeting, b
three aldermen voting for the mayor
7 resolution to accept the propositio
. The cities OF Des Moines, Sioux Gil
Dubuque and Davenport pay 81 p
thousand, says the Burlington Gazeti
/, Cedar Rapids and the other towns p
[ from s1.15 to $3.50. No court in t
world will make the price in tow
like Burlington less than s1.00 p
thousand because they can show tn
the gas cannot be made and deliver