The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-04
CITY NEWS.

p. Wolfe, horseshoeing, 16 s. 10th.
The big free night at the Roll-a-
Way. OF course you're going
Tonight, the big free night at the
Roll-aWay. A big free time for every
body Join the throngs.
Phillip T. Meyling has decided to
Theodore T.. Meyling, lot 8 in block
II of H. P. & w. addition, the property
being on High street between Sixteen
tn and Seventeenth streets. The con.
sideration is not stated in the deed.
The people of Keokuk should not
overlook the big demonstration of
Keokuk products being made this
week at No. 1923 Main street. A light
luncheon is served each day and every
one is invited to attend.
Admission tickets to the ball
grounds, and the Grand stand are be
ing sold at Ward Bros cigar store
and many prefer to secure their tick
cts there and avoid the big rush at the
box office.
German O'Brien and George D.
Bauer have been appointed executors
of the estate Of the late David O'Brien,
whose viii was admitted for probate
yesterday in the District court. The
final report in the guardianship of
Mary Alice Driffield and Lucille Drift
field has been received
The famous Fifty-fifth Iowa Regi-
mental band which has been located
at Centerville and which played in
Keokuk during the visit of President
Roosevelt has been removed to
Ciarinda, to which place Major Land
ers has been induced to move. The
members have been discharged from
the state militia and the leader will
muster in new band at Clarinda,
which gives him salary as leader,
and which will build a $4,000 armory.
The band was organized on March 10,
1888. and was one of the finest in the
state.
The resolutions of respect to the
late H. Scott Howell, as passed by the
Fort Madison bar, contained the fol-
| lowing paragraph: For more than
half century he was member of the
| bar of this county, and in his time was
one of the strong members of our pro
/ fession, which he adorned with a life
of signal ability. devotion and integ-
of right and justice were more to him
| than to win his case or to add to his
personal fame and following; and
! throughout his course at the bar and
/ before the courts he has left record
singularly free from flaws and the
vanity and weakness of one who
would win the case of his client at
/ the expense of wronging his oppo-
nent. And throughout the long
/ course of his more or less active life
his business dealings with his fellow
men, his domestic life in his own
family and his social relations among
his friends and In the community in
which he lived, were above reproach
Hannibal Council, No. 9O7, knights
of Columbus, was host Sunday to a
large number of visiting knights from
| Quincy, ST. Louis, Edna, Brookfield
and many other intermediate towns
Tie occasion of the joyous coming to
gether was the dedication of the new
hall lately leased, remodeled and re
furnished by that live and progress
siye council. The services began Sun
day morning at 1920, when all mem
bers present attended the services al
the church of the Immaculate Concep
ton as the beginning of the day. In
the afternoon, beginning at 2 o'clock
the e. application of the work Of the
three degrees was begun, Hannibal
council with its staff doing the work
of the first degree. The work of the
i second was put on by members OF
Quincy council, No. $50, Joseph Fret
burg having the direction of the
staff The third degree work was
exemplified by degree staff from St
Louis, under the direction of DR.
Robert Emmett Kane of that city. he
being the state deputy for Missouri
The work of each council was of a
high order, and the men in attend
ance say that they have never seen II
presented in better form.