The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-24
CITY NEWS

Use a Gate City want ad.
-Ferndell Chilli sauce. Immegart's.
Buy Markley's choice poultry.
Push your business by advertising
in The Gate City.
ID. E. Reeves has secured the con-
tract to furnish twenty-five cars of
coal for the Nauvoo academy.
M. L. Hoffman's meat market. 916
Main street is the only place in Keo-
kuk that you can get home killed
meats.
Pnckechetuck lodge No. 43 meets
every Friday evening at 500 o'clock
W. E. Rokey. N. G.: George w. Imme-
CART, secretary. Work in first degree.
September Sale special for Satur-
day from 2 to 9 p. M, best regular
75c inverted gas lights at SIC
each. Limit six to a customer. Dun
can-Schell Furniture Co.
The Gate City urgently urges the
merchants to have copy for their adj
vertisements for Sunday mornings is
sue in the hands of the printer Friday
evening or not later that 9 o'clock Sat
urday forenoon.
Curtis j. Johnson, brother of Rose
Johnson, who left taoin aoin aoin aofn
Way OF Donellson in such hurry last
Friday, in writing to the Gate City
today, states that his sister always
had home and good one. Johnson
states that he does not know why his
sister left home and nothing has yet
been heard from the girl who is sup.
posed to be in Keokuk at present.
Quincy Wing; The packet Keo-
kuk arrived here yesterday and
brought about eighty passengers Il
was no excursion. just the shoppers
from the up river towns. Her cargo
of freight was also unusually heavy
and it was among the most profitable
trips the boat has made during the
present season. 1t was announced
yesterday that the Keokuk will con-
tinue her regular trips to this city
until about the middle OF November,
or until the snow begins to fly and
the river Is blocked with ice. render
Ing navigation impossible.
Some of the boys in the Memphis
public school says the Memphis, Mo-,
Democrat have been trying to initiate
the colleges and universities in the
matter of 'hazing" the late arrivals in
the school. They have steep place
on the hillside to which they are in
the habit of taking the new boy. fore
IDLY leading him backward to the edge
of the precipice, where they shove
him over the dump" as they term the
performance If the boy comes out
without scratch, he is that much
ahead. On Wednesday of last week
1t fell to the lot of Marshall Stanton.
son of Rev. G. A. Stanton, to go over
the dump. When the boy fell, he
struck some sharp substance cutting a
long and ugly cash on his face from
which he bled profusely The boys ac-
companied him Is the office OF DR..
Platter, who dressed the wound, being
compelled to take four stitches in
order to bring the broken skin to
gether. The boys themselves, who
hazed the Stanton boy, did not expect
such serious results and were thor
oughly alarmed when they saw his in
juries.
The Iowa Christian Endeavor So
ciety has reached a decision to devote
more time to prison work. This will be
done by providing workers to visit.
the penitentiary and reformatory and
by getting good literature in the hands
of the prisoners. furthermore the mem
bership of the society and the people
generally will be educated to this
work by the society deciding to devote
at least two Sunday evening meetings
each year and possibly as many as
one each month to study of the pris-
on work. The conditions of the Iowa
institutions is perhaps as good as any
In the Union. But since the state
adopted the policy of trying to reform
lie criminal the field for work is I'M
iimitei. Under the old idea that the
only thing to do with prisoner was
to punish him there was no room for
prison work. The prisoner was lock.
ed up and treated as shabbily as pos
sible and as cruelty too in many IN
stances. But Iowa has adopted the
policy Of attempting to reform the
criminal.
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