The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05
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CITY NEWS.

There are good seats remaining
unsold for Paid in Full
/ The Two Johns next Saturday
Matinee and right at the Grand.
] Justice H. C. Landes was trifle
/ better today, but is still very sick at
his home
4 The condition of H. o. Whitney
shows but little improvement. He is
still confined to his bed at home
! Merchants who are arranging for
January clearing sales can tell the pub
lie CT their bargains through this pa
per.
The funeral of the late Mrs. Thorn
as Norris was held this afternoon at
2:3O O'Clock at the family residences,
! I'll North Thirteenth street
The three-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Dan John, Jr., is in critical con-
dition at the family home, suffering
/ from spinal meningitis.
| The change in the weather has not
dispelased the ice men who are anx-
ious to get busy on the river and
complete their ice harvest.
At the meeting this evening of
Morning Star Lodge No. 5, knights of
Pythias, the newly electe! officers will
b, installed and supper will be en-
/ joyed after the meeting
1 -Workmen are busy at the first
locks especially in the mechanical de-
partment where work for government
boats and fixtures at the locks are be-
ing looked after all the year round
Subscribers to The Gate City who
ceive the paper through the mails
are urged to take advantage of the
bargain day rate before January Is at
which time the bargain rate will ex.
pire.
1 "A baby boy was born last night to
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tomlinson of
Kansas City. Mrs. Tomlinson and the
! baby are at the home of her mother,
Mrs. H. B. Hardin, No 1926 Franklin
I street.
/ Hear the concert band and or
/ chestra with THE Two Johns"
At the meeting of the directors of
/, the Keokuk Savings bank held yester-
/ day afternoon, A. e. tombstone was
! elected president and F. W. Davis vice
! president. The cashier and assistant
cashier hold over.
/ A gentleman had the misfortune
to lose some private unopened mail on
Main street this morning and is in
/ hopes that he will be fortunate in
finding it or having the same restored
to him by the finder
Better get your seats for paid in
4 Full" before they are all gone.
Several workmen were engaged
this morning in putting gravel in the
center of the foundation of concrete
on which the new water tank for the
water works is to stand. The tank
will be completed about the last of
February. Steel for its construction
has not yet arrived.
! With the drop in temperature dur
4 ing the night and the cold wave flag
out today the ice men We're pricking
up their ears today and wondering
4 whether or not the ice harvest could
not begin next week. Most of them
have their chutes and tools along the
canal ready for the work.
L The change from yesterdays Cal
ifornia climate to today's weather
was severe one and sometimes bad
colds and much sickness is the out
come of such sudden change There
is little sickness in the city at pres
ent however and the death rate this
year thus far is much less than it was
at this time last year
The annual union meeting of the
Woman's Missionary societies of the
city will be held at the Y NJ. c. A
!, auditorium Saturday, anuary 8, at 2:3(
p m. Rev j w. Potter will deliver
the address. Other parts of the pro
gram will be furnished by the various
churches. All women of the city are
earnestly requested to be present
THE Two Johns" at the Grand
: Saturday matinee and night
The following from Quincy paper
: will be of interest to the many ac
: quaintances here of Lieutenant Cald
ell who has often visited here witt
~ LIS Tel LIVE L. w.. anu " III
: has many friends in Keokuk; In the
: LIST general orders of the navy de
partment is the statement that Lieu
tenant Commander Harry n. Caldwell
Z navigating and executive Office, of thu
J United States cruiser Milwaukee, ha
!. been ordered to the naval hospital a
u Mare Island, San Francisco, for treat
nent. No particulars of his lines
. have yet been received by Quinc
friends. Lieutenant Caldwell Is
II Quincy boy and was Admiral Dewey
nag officer at the battle of Manila Bay
"a nee that time he has had furthe
II fame by being the first American Of
u ficer in command of submarine. 70
IL the last year he has been the executiv
and navigating officer of the Milwal
kee, one of Uncle SANS finest tie
= thousand ton cruisers. which has bee
~ stationed off the southern Californi
" coast.