The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-16
CITY NEWS


Unity Circle social this evening
postponed.
Srd Vein Coal (southern Ills.) car
iots. d. E. Reeves, mine agent.
Horse and mule auction at Hamil-
ton. H., Friday and Saturday, Feb.
" ana 20. Sale starts at l o'clock.
VIII sell anything consigned to me.
B. W. Elder.
-Slelghing Is excellent just now, for
the snow covers coating of ice which
IS on the ground. Coasting should be-
come great sport this week unless
a sudden thaw comes and cleans off
the hills.
chance to hear Miss Wycoff in
recital Friday evening at high school
assembly room. Admission 35 cents
at the door. Tickets sold in advance
by grammar and high school pupils,
% cents.
This present fall of snow makes
slelghing excellent and already Sew
eral sleighing parties have been ar
ranged for this evening. Among the
list of parties will be one given by the
Alamo club.
The sparrows are having hard
time of it these days to get anything
to eat. Many people throw out crumbs
and other scraps for the birds to eat
and flock of birds make short work
OF handful OF bread crumbs.
Walking was rather tedious early
this morning before the walks were
cleared off, or paths broken through
the snow. The pioneers who came
down town first had to blaze the way
through the snow for the others.
THE Redfelds," the continued
story which has been interesting a
large number Of The Gate City read
ers, will be completed within few
days. The Gate City will in the near
future launch another serial that will
be interesting.
The Keokuk High School Com
ment, one of the best numbers of the
official school paper issued for some
time, was given out today. 1t is the
Freshmen Number and contains sew
eral Freshmen stories. The cover de-
sign is especially attractive. having
the word Freshmen in large letters
on the front cover.
Train No. l from the south was
about twenty minutes late in arriving
this morning, due to much snow on
! the tracks. No. IL from the north was
little over an hour late. The cars
were much covered with sleet and
snow though the train from Burlington
was not snow bound but waited in
that city for Rock Island connections.
/ While in Des Moines attending the
convention of the physical directors of
the state, R. E. Chambrlin of this city
met representative from Ottumwa
and Des Moines. The result was that
each promised to send teams to Keo-
kuk during the coming spring to COM
pete in a big track meet to be held at
/ the athletic park The meet promises
| to be the biggest ever held in Keo-
kuk and will be open to every regis
tered athletic in the United States No
athlete in the country who can show
card of registration will be barred
/ from entrance to this big meet. AL
4 though Ralph Rose and some of the
big fellows are not expected, there
will be many classy performers. The
paper by Physical Director Chamber
lin on extension work among the
schools was thoroughly discussed by
the physical directors and all were
unanimous in the opinion that Keokuk
/ was far ahead of the other associations
of the state in this department. The
extension work in Keokuk during the
past two years has been worthy OF
praise and is recognized throughout
the state.