The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-04
CITY NEWS.

Unity SliCiS party IT,
morrow evening at Hawkes. hall.
The public schools reopened this
morning after the holiday vacation
The city council is to meet this
evening in regular mon hly session
Yesterday afternoon there was
quite a crowd of youngsters skating on
tie canal near the bending works.
Sunday was a fine spring day.
During the afternoon there were large
number of people out walking.
Mrs. Walter Hull, who has been i'll
for the past several days. is improving
rapidly which will be good news to her
many friends.
The channel of the river is free
from floating ice since the recent warm
spell and yesterday and today one
could almost have expected to see the
boats running.
The first game of golf of the year
was played yesterday afternoon when
a number of the members of the Coun-
try club were out on the links taking
advantage of the fine day
Many of the college students re-
turnedt their respective colleges over
the country this morning after spend
ing the holidays in the city with rela-
tives. The Union depot was the scene
of much activity with the returning
OF the studen to their studies.
With tie holidays over the Keo-
kuk public school students have re-
.rned to the different schools over
the city and will have no vacation now
until tie March vacation and after
that no more until the first part of
June when the schools will close for
the summer.
Now is the time of year when new
books and diaries are started and all
important events during the course of
the year are tabulated and make very
interesting reading. A number of bust
ness men who come in contact with
many happenings in the boat and rail-
road line during the year have Giary
which makes interesting reading mat
ter for themselves and others.
The holidays and special ami
versaries of this year will fall on the
following days of the week: Feb.
II, Friday, Lincoln's birthday; Feb.
IA, Sunday, st. Valentines Day; Feb.
%, Monday, Washington's birthday;
April 1, Thursday, All Foors Day;
April II, Sunday, Easter; May 80,
Sunday, Decoration Day; Sept 6,
Monday Labor Day; Oct. 81, Sun
day, Halloween; Nov. %, Thursday,
Thanksgiving Day; Dec. o., Satur-
day, Christmas.
At last Iowa is to figure promi-
nently on the stage, not only through
the hero of new play, but also
through the playwright. Rupert
Hughes, one of the most brilliant mem
bers of the Iowa colony in New York,
has finished and sold a comedy called
My Boy which will probably have
an early production, if contracts with
theatrical managers mean anything.
Mr.. Hughes writes that he has drawn
upon his knowledge of Iowa life for a
considerable part of his play and that
his hero is distinctly an Iowa man.
Mr.. Hughes also impaired the addi-
tional information that a player well
known in this state is to enact the
principal role-none other than Tim
Murphy.
-Nauvoo Independent: C. w
Lucas, of Chicago, the erstwhile attor-
ney for the interurban company, was
in tbs city "Wednesday shaking hands
with old friends We acknowledge a
pleasant call. Mr. Lucas was in New
York recently and testified at the ref
eree's hearing in the bankruptcy mat
ter of the Fidelity Funding company.
He stated that the hearing was prac-
tically to decide whether the matter
should be left in the hands of the state
receiver or be turned over to federal
receiver. He himself thinks that it
would be better in the hands of a fed
era1 receiver owing to the fact that the
creditors are scattered all over the
country. When asked if he thought
Kieran Quit business with fat bank
account, Mr. Lucas said he did not
think he did If Mr. Lucas was here
on a business mission he did not d.
vulge it. I just came to call on old
friends" he said.