The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-01
CITY NEWS.

The city council will meet on
Monday evening in regular monthly
session.
"A meeting of the L. NJ. r. class OF
the congregational Sunday school was
held last evening in the club rooms OF
the class.
At o'clock this morning, the mer-
curry was one degree below freezing
point, little too cold for the first
day Of May.
The members of the Knights of
Columbus will approach Holy commun-
ion in body at st. Francis De Sales
Catholic church Sunday morning at s
O'Clock mass.
Dan Harrington, OF .,orth Tenth
street, was locked up last evening at
the police station for being drunk.
RED" Jones was also locked up, hav-
ing been found proving about the
streets.
The couple who we're arrested
night before last at the request of w.
n. Parsons of Augusta ILL.,, who
claimed that the woman had touched
him for about SIS in Macomb after he
had been drugged, were released last
evening by marshal Kesselring. Par
sons promised to come back to the
station in an hour and never showed
up again. The marshal having no
authority to hold the couple any longer
let them go.
Caroline NJ Fuller and children,
heirs of the late George S. Fuller have
decided to r. B. Meek, lot 3 and the
west 80 feet of lot 2 in block 1913, the
property being located on Orleans
street between Twelfth and Thirteenth
streets. The consideration is not
stated in the deed fled for record.
The spot where Abraham Lincoln
stood in Macomb fifty years ago and
made one of his historic speeches IS
to be marked in enduring bronze. The
tablet costing 5000 will be placed on
the side of the court house just west
| of the south door. at a spot just east
OF the small door into the west part of
the basement. It will be just opposite
the west end OF the sheriff's Office.
The funds to pay for this are sure to
be raised by popular dollar subscrip-
tons.
"A colored youth who was on his way
to Carthage last evening, had taken on
| too much liquor before he started
| from Keokuk and the result was that
he fell over into the slough on the
other side of the river He was drunk
when he fell, but became became per-
fectly sober when he struck the water
and was enabled to climb out before
he had swallowed all of the water In
the vicinity. He came back to Keokuk
| to get some dry clothing and stopped
at the police station over night to
evaporate.
After this week the Y. M. c. A.
Gymnasium and swimming pool will
be open to members of the boys
classes during the regular hours. The
gym season has really come to a
close. although the Business Mems
and Mems evening classes will con-
Itinue during the summer. The physic-
al work committee of the association
is arranging for field meets to be held
at the association field during the sum-
ner.
La Harpe Quill: Some of the
boys about town made a snake killing
Sunday morning. They found an old
abandoned well on the Charlie Long
place where the reptiles had spent the
winter and when the smoke of battle
had cleared away an inventory showed
that they had put an even dozen of
them put of their misery. They were
mostly the species known as blue
racers. The balance being water and
garter snakes. The boys brought them
to town. strung them on wire and
Will Carnes took picture of them.
Fort Madison Gem City: Resolu.
lions of respect to the memory of H.
Scott Howell. the deceased member of
the Keokuk bar. were passed at
meeting of the Fort Madison bar held
this afternoon. Otto c. Herminghau-
sen presided at the meeting and Casey
Hamilton was secretary. The resolu-
tons has been prepared by w. S.
Hamilton, T. B. Snyder and Otto C..
Herminghausen, a committee appoint
ed for that purpose at meeting OF the
bar held Wednesday, 1t was moved
and carried that the resolutions be
made matter of court record.
Among the delegates from out OF
the city who are attending the mis-.
sionary convention at the Trinity M.
E. church are the following: Mes
danes. G. E. Fields. H. Heck. F. Din
widdie and l.. j. Kistler from Fort
Madison; M. P. Graham. and l.. Ora
ham from Centerville, N. Day and A.
Young from Bloomfield, r. Barnes
from Pulaski. E. Hammett from Mounl-
ton and J. Haney from Milton. The
sessions of the convention will con
! tinue this evening and tomorrow and
the public is invited to attend. The
complete program was published in
last evenings paper.