The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-01
CITY NEWS.

Judge VIM. Logan has been con.
fined to his home for a few DAYS wiz,
a rheumatic attack, but Is considerable
improved today.
"A line new flag is floating proud.
~ on the Flagstaff of the Hotel Keo-
kuk today. The old flag was blown
to pieces by the strong wind and sleet
couple of weeks ago.
For the consideration of $500
August Voss has decided to ]. H.
Jacobs the east half of the northeast
quarter of section 80, township c.
north, of range 5 west.
The funeral of the late Mrs. Cath
crime Torpey was held this morning
at $3.50 o'clock at st. Francis De Sales
Catholic church, Rev. James Dunnion
officiating.
Sunday was very pleasant day
and great number Of people were
out enjoying the spring like weather
Quite crowd of people visited the
lower lock and many took the interur.
Deeii Iva " ipo W lldIlllIOu anu w dTSdW,
Hal Hunsacker, stranger, was
arrested yesterday and locked UP, an
information being filed against him
this morning in the Superior court
charging him with having no visable
means of support.
In tomorrow evenings issue. the
Gate City will publish in full the ser.
mon delivered yesterday by Rev. NJ
Rowena Morse, pastor of the First
Uniterian society. The sermon was on
The Theater' and was a very in.
tersting discourse.
-Ha 4unsacker was up in the SUI
perior court today and plead guilty
to having no visable means of sup
port. He was sentenced to thirty days
in the city Jail and will probably be
given chance to slide out of town.
The missionary society of the
Congregational church met this after
noon with Mrs. j. l.. Daugherty at her
home. The Awakening in Turkey
was the topic of the afternoon and
Rev. Williams, pastor of the church
gave an interesting talk on the sub.
ject.
e. O. Eckland gave a very inter.
esting talk Saturday evening at the
Y. M. C. A. to the members of the
boys department and told them in a
very clear manner the method Of max
ing starch. His talk was entirely on
starch and will be supplemented by a
visit to the Hubinger Bros plant in a
short time.
Harry Washburn has sold to j.
L. Doherty, part of the south hall of
the southeast quarter of section 4 and
the east half of the northwest quar-
ter of section 9 and the west half of
the west half of the northeast quarter
of section 8, all in township &C, north
of range west. The consideration is
not stated in the deed,
This afternoon in the court of
Justice Burrows informations were
filed against Geo. Witch upon ctal-
plant of Henry Sanders, charging him.
with being drunk and disturbing the
peace. Constable Leindecker was CIV
en- the warrants to serve.
A deed transferring over 600 acres
of land was filed today in the record
er's Office. A. B. Gillaspey transferring
to Dennis Morony all of section 10
and parts of section "a, all in town
ship &c north, of range Z west. The
is part of the old Sample
farm at Hinsdale. No consideration is
given in the deed filed.
A large crowd was attracted to
the corner of Seventh and Johnson
street yesterday afternoon where two
men, negro and white We're dis
turbing the peace of the Sabbath by
fighting. The battle was an exciting
one and many fierce blows were ex-
by the principals. The pair
were parted before the arrival of the
police.
The funeral of the late G. M.
Belts was held Sunday afternoon from
The home of his daughter, Mrs: Sand
burp on Concert street and attended
by a large number of the friends OF
the deceased. Rev. R. G. Mcllwain,
rector of St. Johns church had
charge of the services and music was
by the choir. After the
services at the house which were very
the remains were taken to
Oakland cemetery where the knights
If Pythias burial services was given
by the members of Morning Star
lodge No. 5. of which the deceased
had been a member for Is years. The
members of the order met at their
hall and marched to the house in a
body and the pail bearers We're select
I'd from members of the lodge as fol-
ows: T. F. Reilly, q. M. Majors, A..
G. Larson. James A. Hirst, j. X. Rob
srts and A. C. Decker.
The past month was the Warmest
February since 1892 according to the
weather records. The mean tempera-
.ure was "a. while in 1882 1t was 40.
Il was also "a in 1892, but nothing else
between 1882 and the present year,
was as warm. The coolest day of
he month was the 10th, at 8, while
90 4.