The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-04
CITY NEWS.
Corned CodfisA at immigrants.
Smoke Moener's Silver Ash cigar

anv part ii city. soa Main st. Bell
phone. ssSR.
g. l.. SNYDER Of Marion has been
appointed to succeed the late NJ. r
SAarts or harrington as a member Of
the board OF trustees Of the Odd Eel
lows Orphans home at Mason City.
Illinois day next Sunday in Keo
kuk A double header will be played
at Huhinger park between Keokuk and
Quincy and hundreds OF baseball low
| ing people from Illinois points are ex
pected to attend
Special for Saturday. only linn
ited number OF white Inside and blue
outside enamel dish pans. These are
no seconds. but first-class goods. Reg
si.2S. 10 ct Size. 75cs reg. $3.50, II
| ct size. sscs reg. sl,75. II at size,
| M.lSs reg. S2.o0 81 at sine, SIPS
Settler and Cherry Co.
During the week in Hancock coan-
ty. H., the following marriage licenses
were issued. o. O. Kirby, Lomax
Ollie Edna Cuttings, Disco; Edward
s. Gott. FIT Madison, Harriet A. Bax-
ter, Nauvoo; Wesley n. Schneider,
Nauvoo. Nellie E. Nelson. Nauvoo.
Home grown strawberries are IN
market this week, the first box having
appeared at Montrose on Monday. The
prospects up there are for good and
large crop this year and shipments
have commenced out OF that place
which is quite a strawberry market
during the season.
The police who discovered the fire
at the Peerless laundry early this
morning and the fire department
which extinguisAed it we're rewarded
for their work today by ]. F. Kedaisch
owner of the building, who sent around
several boxes of fine cigars.
The Montrose Journal says that
about fifty people from that place
came to Eeokuk Monday to see the
ball games and returned home disap-
pointed because Jacksonville lost.
There were several hundred Keokuk
people who were likewise disappoint-
ed.
A slight change has been made in
the opening games, from the schedule
as first announced, the games tonor-
row being now arranged as follows:
But one game will be played at Ath-
letic field, being at $3.50 o'clock be-
tween the Irwin Phillips and High
School teams. Two games viii be
played in Huhinger park, one starting
at $50 and one at 400, the S. Hamill
Co. VS.. Elks being the first game and
the Irwin Phillips VS.. Huiskamps be-
ing the second game to start at 400
o'clock.
Burlington Gajktte: With but q
month remaining before the great
motor boat regatta and celebration to
be held at Burlington July and 6. the
finance committee must get to work
and raise the remainder of the fund
necessary to putting on the big cele-
bration A meeting of the committee
was held last evening at the CONNER
cial Exchange rooms and reports were
made. There is no doubt that the cele-
hration to be held here is to be one of
the greatest in Burlington or the sur
rounding territory The members Of
the committees are serving voluntarily
and are working hard to make every
feature success The tobbers' finance
committee has about completed the
canvass OF the wholesalers and the
chairman. F. c. Ihrer. viii make his
( final report next Wedn day. The com.
naittee to use the professional men has
! been going the rounds in the past few
days and will be ready to report soon
Harold j. Wilson is chairman
After having been in business II
keokuk for thirty years and two
months, n. ]. Burke, proprietor of the
confectionery store at 5o4 Main street
has decided to retire, and will trans
! fer his business to his two sons, Rn
dolph and Harry. who inamediatel.
take charge. Very few business mel
in the city are better known taan Mr.
Burke or have been Identified ia busi
ness longer than he has Through
close application to business BIZ
Aas been thoroughly successful dur
ing these many years and his retire
ment is a well deserved one. In III,
future Mr.. Burke viii leave tie sfor,
entirely in the hands OF his young sons
although he viii make that place HI:
business headquarters Both Rudolph
and Harry are thoroughly competen
to manage affairs Of the business boil
having several years of experience IL
the store. The former was for SONS
time employed at the Burlington
freight office in this city ard wa.
later in railroad office in ST. Louis
Warsaw Bulletin: Among the par
y from the east who were in Keoknl
last week looking after matters Pc
tanning to the water power propus..
ton were J. II. Freeman. a noted e.
gineer, and Prof. W. Crosby. profes
sor of geology at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Both these
gentlemen came in the interest OF tbs
financiers who 1t is expected viii I'm
ance the project, MI Freeman is Il
charge of the building of the viaduc
in New York, an engineering proiec