The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-22
CITY NEWS.
-Sealshipt oysters at Immegart's.
THE Redfields' will appear Ic

llOlION hight
The more YOU the more yot
save at Bode-Lar5on's annual shoe
sale
There was quite crowd assam
bled in front of the Roll-a-way las
i evening watching the masquerader.
pass in and out OF the rink.
! The Redtields.H short seria
story by Lillian Hale. will appear to
morrow evening Be sure and get tbs
/ first chapters as you will be pleased
with the story.
+ The condition of Frank Wilmering
who was operated on for appendicitis
i at Rochester, Mimi, continues to i'm
prove according to the latest word re
ceived by friends.
Manager Berte of the Jacksonville
Baseball club announces that he has
arranged for two exhibition games
with Peoria, in Peoria, for April Is
and 90. He also expects to book
Bloomington for a few dates.
Members of the Country club will
be looking forward to an ea.ly spring
Z
The club is looking forward to most
successful year and it is expected that
old as we'll as new members will take
up the various games quite early.
During the week in Hancock coun
ty, Illinois, the following marriage
licenses were issued: Lawrence Cox
to Elma Curry; Frank W. Burnley to
Susie C. Rowland. Charles Moore to
Lola Wells. Floyd William Huxley to
Estella Wright, George P. Pohi to
Clara Hartman.
The resent months holds the
record of any hat can be remember
ed for cloudy weather and the month
from the beginning has been one of
gloom and clio Gy days have been in
order for the past three weeks. This
morning the sun shown out brightly
about 10 o'clock and helped to bright
en- up things again.
The regular meeting of the An
cient Order of Hibernians will be
held this evening at Schouten's hall, at
which a number of new members will
be taken In. A committee has ar
ranged for a light luncheon to follow
the business and initiation. The mem
bers are planning a dance to be given
short time previous to the opening
of lent.
The state board Of parole will visit
the Fort Madison pcnitentiary at a
very early date to investigate about
twenty-five cases. applications for
parole, from prisoners. At that time
1t is reported the members of the
board will stop over in Burlington to
pick up few points in the Storms
case before definitely making a de-
cision in the application for parole of
AID Storms, who bruataIly murdered
Mrs. Rathbun and her IL year old
daughter.
Tonight In the Dexter Park pavil.
ion In Chicago one of the great Mara
thon races of the coultrv will be pull
ed off Dorando Pietri, the famous
long distance runner and Albert L.
Corey. the Chicago star, will cover the
long route in which promises to be one
of the most splendid races in the his
tory of western Marathons. Dorando
claims TO be in excellent condition and
the Chicago star will also be in prime
shape, The amateurs of Chicago and
its French colony are in high hopes of
having Corey returned the victor.
The Keokuk high school basket
ball team will play the Fort Madison
high school this evening at Fort Mad
ison and another victory is expected
for the purple and white. The Keo-
kuk team will be strengthened by the
presence of Duncan in the lineup, this
player having been out of the game
since the Ottumwa contest C. King
will again be In center, with Weis-
mann and n Kiedaisch forwards, and
Duncan and Parsons. guards. AL.
though it is not thought that Fort
Madison will compare with the Keokuk
team in speed and experience, yet a
good contest is expected and Fort
Madison fol- wers of the game are
looking for victory.
The fact that company OF the
Iowa National Guards might be or.
gained in Keokuk, as mentioned a
short time ago through the columns
of this paper, has caused considerable
comment and already quite a number
OF young men of the city have taken
up the matter in an enthusiastic man
ner and are uroing its formation. A
letter has been sent to the adjutant
general asking for full information
concerning such an organization. The
i keokuk organization would be com
& pany of the state regiment and would
4 be composed OF possibly sixty young
men. A company OF this kind would
i give color 10 any national oliday cele
brated in the city and would also
! create a respect for the American
flag. which TO other organization could
hope to do.