The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-22
CITY NEWS.

-Adrew Ballback voted for Lincoln
in 1864 at Memphis, Tenn.
Remember Ewers- Mccarthy Co.'S
20 per cent reduction sale is still on.
VIM. Van Steinwyck voted for Lin
coin in st. Louis in 1860 and again in
Keokuk in 1864.
Our overcoats and suits are new
Mccarthy Co.
Il. Ziegel of Boston, Mass. is in the
city today visiting the Huiskamp
Bros. large shoe plant.
F. G. Gibbs, state boiler inspector
of Chicago, was in the city today in
specting boilers of local manufacture
ing plants.
This afternoon a marshal's sale
was to be held on an execution in the
case of VIM. c. Browning VS.. the Keo-
kuk Floor Covering company, in which
judgment had been entered for $500.
ID. H. Annable is another Keokull
citizen who voted for Lincoln, both in
1860 and 1864. He also had the pleas
ure of having heard him speak at
Carthage during his campaign for sen.
ator.
There will be called meeting OF
i the Abraham Lincoln club Saturday
night at Thirteenth and Main streets
for the purpose of celebrating Lin
coins birthday. George Mckee, Sec
rotary.
John Saltzer, who has been chief
clerk to w. R. Votag, agent for the
Burlington at FIT. Madison, for the past
six weeks, has returned to Keokuk to
resume his position in the local Bur
lington office.
e. S. Edward, head of the Ameri-
can Tobacco company with offices il
New York City, was in town today Wis
iting local tobacco dealers. The
American Tobacco company is one OF
the largest in the world.
The local mail clerks have been
notified that the 18th annual conven-
ton of the Sixth Division of the R. NJ
S. will be held at Des Moines January
27-2S. Delegates from the Burlington
district will be appointed.
The Southeastern Iowa Retail
Lumbermen's association will hold the
! twentieth annual convention in Oska-
| loosa on February A. Following the
regular business of the meeting, the
( delegates will be entertained with a
I! theater party for Paid in Full"
In a talk with the old man at tbs
police station who has forgotten his
name and everything else the superin
4 tendent of the poor ascertained thai
the man had once been in a poor house
/ He said that he was treated shame
/ fully there and has hit in the heat
and knocked down to the floor.
"A number of employees of one OF
! Keokuk's manufacturing firms were
pitching quoits in the yard of the es
adjustment this noon. The chairs ii
front of number c. cigar stores were
out on the sidewalk along Main street
announcing the coming of warn
weather. The doors of the differSn
stores along the thoroughfare were
open and everything was indicative o
warm spring day in May.
Hamilton seems to be havin'
some slot machine trouble also, accord
ing to the following from the Press
The case of the City of Hamilton VS.
T. H Crawford for maintaining
cigar wheel in his place of business il
violation of the city ordinance, wa
settl 4 Wednesday when representa-
tives of the principals got togethe
and compromised the affair. The frs
trial resulted in hung jury and tn
case bid fair to be long and obst1
nate one, and the fact that both side
made concessions and settled the mat
ter amicably and without further cos
and trouble is a matter of congratr
lation to the people of this city, re
CARELESS of the view they had takel
of the case.