The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-30
CITY NEWS.

Hear Ben Hendricks song Tits at !
the Grand tonight
Tho Chapel Fund society of the I
Westminster Presbyterian church will /
meet Monday afternoon with Mrs, c. I
S. Pond.
The Wabash train yesterday aft |
ernoon. after leaving Keokuk. ran into |
q bunch of cattle about a mile and
half beyond Islvaston. killing four OF
them and Gripping one.
The Y. NJ. c. A, basket ball team |
which was 70 play in Burlington last
evening. did not go to that city. the
game being called off by Burlington
in the afternoon.
John Givins. the fireman, had the
misfortune to break the thumb of his
left hand this morning. The injury
happened while he was assisting In
handling the frozen hose at the Sixth
street fire station.
Laugh and the world laughs with
YOU, snore and you sleep alone. Go
to see Ben Hendricks in 'Yon Yon-
son at the Grand tonight and the
crowd goes with YOU, miss it and you'll
weep alone.
-'Today's weather will have no eff
feet whatever upon the ground hog
He will be out next Tuesday and If
the sun is shining. he will so back
and there Will be six weeks more of
weather like toda..-. If the day is
cloudy. spring will arrive right away.
One of the minute men, Har is.
had both hands and both feet frozen
at the fire late last night and was
this morning unable to get his shoes
on. The weather last night was awful
for anyone to be out in and the cold
was bitter on account of the wind.
&C. c. Collier. formerly with the
State Central Savings bank here, who
went to ST. Louis few years ago, is
to be assistant cashier of the new
Union Station bank of st. Louis and
has sent friends here announcements
of the opening of the new bank on
this morning at 8 o'clock. The new
bank is located in the Union station
and will be open each day from 8 a, m.
to 10 p. m. It's capital stock is
100000
Back in the days of the old volun-
teer fire department there were some
cold nights, too and the firemen had
several hard battles in those days
which are brought wildly back by the
cold of last night and the fighting OF
fires on bitterly cold night. One of
these old volunteer fires was the Clark
fire along where the Settler building
is now. Another that is remembered
as a bitterly cold night on which to
fight fire was the T. y. Pond fire in
which several men were killed. T. \.
Pond and school teacher in the
Catholic school baing the victims. The
Pond egg store was entirely burnt out
in this fire.
Waterloo has taken the first step
toward forming a booster club The
club will have at least one hundred
members and will have salaried Of
ficers who will manage the affairs of
the boosters Their object is to
boost Waterloo's attendance to $4,000
next season and every member will
in sense obligate himself to do all
in his lower tn achieve this end.
These one hundred men will pledge
themselves to attend as many games
as possible and if they cannot go. see
that some one else attends in tfei,
place II will take lot of hard work.
much sacrifice of time and money. but
it shows a spirit that is worthy of
commentator. II is unquestionably
much easier to attend social func-
ton. get full value for your money
and not have any obligation to fulfill.
This IS one advantage Quincy fans
have over Waterloo and they ought TO
appreciate it.
Quite number of Keokuk people
are acquainted with William Riley
who for several years past has been
the leading long distance runner at
Iowa City and in the state 1t has
been reported about during the past
few weeks that Riley would compete
during the coming summer. Regard
ing these reports the Des Moines News
says: If the stories recently sent out
by Iowa are true that William Riley
will compete in the distances for the
State University it virtually means
that Iowa Is going TO break with the
big Eight" Riley not only has com
peted in track meets for three years.
which is sufficient in the Big Eight
rules. but he has already received 4
degree from the university. which also
bars him from competition. Most Of
the Missouri Valley schools are of he
opinion that after Iowa has received
the cold shoulder from the principal
schools in the Big Eight" association
as she has for the past two or three
years, the athletic board will decide
TO compete only with the schools of
her own class