The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11
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The district court was busy again
with the jury case of Mcdonald vs..
the General Construction Co.
"A meeting of the membership CON-
mittee will be held at the Y. NJ. G. A.
on Thursday evening of this week.
See the lady automobilists-b
than the Runaway Horse" that re-
Gently made such big hit at Dodge's
/ theater tonight.
The steamer Helen Blair with its
party of excursionists left ST. Louis,
! yesterday morning and will probably
arrive in port this evening.
Walter (Baldy) Croak and John
i (Minnie) Mulhern, were up in the
| superior court this morning charged
with having been drunk. Each was
| given ten days in the county JAIL
The launch stolen at Burlington
and for which the Keokuk police were
notified to keep a lookout, has been
recovered. 1t was found tied to the
shore short distance south of Bur-
lington.
Last evening at the Bethel A. NJ.
E. church, Rev. Dr. C. N. Grandson
delivered his famous lecture. What's
he Matter with Sambo" which was
1 greatly appreciated by all who were
present.
I'm the superior court room this
evening at 1880 o'clock, meeting
4 will be held for the purpose of making
arrangements for Memorial day The
4 meeting will be a public one, to which
all are invited.
The nearby newspapers, whose
towns sent teams to the field meet
held here last Saturday, are all speak
ing in high praise of the big athletic
event and Keokuk is getting quite a
i good deal of advertising out of the
i affair.
4 AT the family home No. 1405 Pa
lean street, yesterday afternoon occur
a red the death of Isaac Royster, col
ored, aged AZ years and who had beer
well known citizen of Keokuk since
1866 when he came here from Mexico
q Mo-, where he was born. Death re
suited from typhoid pneumonia aftel
an illness of but few days. Mrs. j
Henderson is a sister of the deceased
Two more small pox signs have
been tackled upon levee buildings
being placed on Nos 10 and 81 Mair
street and the houses being undel
quarantine with special officers or
guard and keep anyone from going OIL
coming out. Like the other house or
Water street which is under quaran
tine. all are disorderly houses and ne
, one is at all frightened over the cases
which are mild ones and similar t.
such as Keokuk usually always has.
The grand lodge of the Ancient
. Order of United Workmen opened las
!. evening in Burlington with hundred:
OF delegates present from the vairou!
, lodges in the state. Keokuk Is vel
represented at the meeting, the follow
, ing being the delegates from Keokul
lodge No, 256: Ed, G. Vaughn, 7. Z
tO'Brien, Ed. w. Moore, L. LAUDER
sheimer, L. A Hechler. R. j. Patter
son, T. P. Matheny, A. A. Bauer ant
Hiram Stebbins. The convention
opened last evening with parade
Gov. Carroll being one of the distin
g,ished men in the same, followed b.
, the initiation of over one hundred
candidates. Ed G. Vaughn is a mem
Der of the committee on distribution
The grand lodge session began Thu
, morning.
The following from Hanniba
paper will be of much interest to loca
Q. railroad men: Local railway cir
cles were all agog today over the BIZ
shakeup that has taken place on thu
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
Bulletins received at the general OF
!, fees in this city announce the follow
ing changes: r. NJ. Ogilvie, trainmas
. ter on the Hannibal division is trans
: ferred and promoted to the position o
assistant superintendent at Brookfeld
succeeding w. G. Welsh who become
superintendent; S. H. Shuts, superin
tendent at Brookfield is appointed
: superintendent at Galesburg, succeed
ing e. p. Bracken; Mr.. Bracken is ap
pointed general superintendent of TIL
Wyoming district; Harry Bryan, super
intendent of the Nebraska lines goei
to the general offices in Chicago; w
n. Throop superintendent OF the low;
lines goes to Lincoln and becomes
superintendent Of the Nebraska lines
l.. b. Allen of Alliance, Neb., is ap
pointed superintendent of the low
lines