The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11
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Curtain rises at o'clock for the
Il Corbett matinee.
Hurry, and get your tickets for
the Wycoff concert and insure your
self good seats.
Weasel race by professional skat-
ers Gate City Roller Rink, Estes Hail.
Thursday, S'eb. II. Admission 1oc,
skates, 15c.
oh, girls, shacffer & Saunders
at COT Main street, II sell any sheet
music in their show window Friday
and Saturday olly for 10 cents.
A dispatch from Kansas City
states that Mrs Mamie Tomlinson,
whose parents reside in Keokuk, has
brought suit against her husband for
maintenance.
/ The poultry association will meet
this evening in the Superior court
room. The officers for the ensuing
year are to be elected and plans Will
be laid for the poultry show to be Civ
en- next November.
1t IS possible that the new semi
professional base ball team organized
/ for the coming summer will - by the
name OF Recalls. A meeting is to be
/ held tomorrow evening at which a de-
cision as to the name will be reached.
john Voss arrived in the city to-
day from Rock Island and is well pre-
pared to give the big German battle
1 Tor his life. He even looks bigger
and stronger t. an OSBORN. who appear
4 ed against Busch last week, and APP
pears much faster. He is somewhat
taller and is well built.
st. Louis people are taking de-
cided interest in the Keolluk water
power The assertion made last night
/ at a banquet held in ST. Louis by
! President Jones of the Mississippi
Valley Trust Co. that st. Louis would
1 be getting power from the big dam at
i Keokuk within three years makes Keo-
! kuk people feel that ST. Louis people
know what they are talking about.
! Fort Madison Democrat: Four
years ago today, February 10, 1905,
| Mrs. ]. p. Cruikshank wrote letter
/ to her husband, directing it to Ha-
vana, Cuba, where he was at the time,
directing it in care of a firm of steam
Iship agents. This morning, February
ID 1909, Mr.. Cruikshank received the
letter here in Fort Madison, it hav-
! ing laid in the agents office in Ha-
vana during the four years, in which
I time Cuba has been under three gov
ernments. Rather peculiar happen
ing the letter being returned to him
four years to a day from the uate of
mailing.
Clarence Conn departed this
morning for Butte, Montana, where
he will make his future home and his
many friends in this city greatly regret
TO see him leave. He has q host of
friends in the city made by his pleas
ant manner and good fellowship He
lis a graduate Of the Keokuk high
school of the year 1906 and has taken
part in athletics in the city. For the
past several wears he has been an en-
ploye # kellogg rye Co. and for
some time past has been travelling
salesman for the firm. He leaves to
take position wit, the Hennessy
Department store and will be in the
grocery department He leaves Keo-
kuk with the best wishes from hun
dreds of friends - wish him sue
cess
New and laudable departures are
continually being undertaken at the
~. w. C. A. and each in turn meets
with gratifying success. The latest II
1.-THE way of education and instruction
to be undertaken at the association
mentary law The class is to be
taught by an able instructor, ]. o
Boyd attorney of the Keok,lk State
Central Savings bank. 1t is the inten
ton of those in charge to have the
class started within week or SO as
soon as enough names have been re
ceived to warrant the starting o.
such class The undertaking Of sucf
, class would be very beneficial t.
; Keolfuk women who could learn mucf
lin the way of conducting meeting.
and know the business-like method o
conducting and taking part i'll meetins
under parliamentary rules. The idef
lis a splendid one anc all who wisl
to join such a class and would take
an interest in a class of this kim
should hand their names in at once
to Secretary Miss Doll of the Y. w. G
A The study should prove interesting
+ and it is to be hoped that enough Keo
: kuk ladies will take interest in thu
t classes and under instructions of suci
: an able tutor the classes and stud.
| should prove very interesting.