The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-04
UNDERWEAR SPECIAL ToMoR-
ROW
Children's fleece lined underwear,
csc value. at 15c garment. Go to the
Central Store.
CITY NEWS.

Comforters and blankets at all
prices. at the Central.
Look and get our prices on lap
robes and blankets. Sherwood.
Winter resorts have no charms
for Keokuk people just now--the
charm may come later.
The regular monthly meeting OF
the Benevolent Union Home will be
held tomorrow morning at the Home
at ten o'c'ock.
The milk men have raised the
price Of milk, only IL quart tickets
now being sold to the housewife for
81, there previously being IA Of the
tickets given.
Arthur Breitenstein has been APP
pointed regular clerk a. the post Of
flee, he having been substitute clerk.
This will make an additional clerk in
the Keokuk office.
The -anadian Thanksgiving has
come and gone. October rs being set
aside by the people OF the northern
country to return thanks for the
blessings of their land.
Friends of Joseph Fitzpatrick, the
employee of the c., B. & @. railroad,
who was recently struck by the in
terurban car, state tnat he was not
in an intoxicated condition when hit
One OF the pipes connected with
the artesian well at the Keokuk picket
works bursted this morning and the
water rushed out in great stretms.
Workmen were hurried to the scene
for the purpose of making repairs.
The raft boat Harriet was delay
ed about two hours at the first lock
this morning when the lower gates
refused to open, owing to the fact
that something was caught between
them. The Harriet had a raft in tow
and was coming down.
Charles Hennemann, ex-chief of
police, fell and broke his wrist about
noon yesterday He was taking a
short cut by climbing between two
box cars of freight blocking Johnson
street, and in falling sustained quite
a serious fracture.
Coroner Korschgen was notified
during the night Of the death of
Hiram j. Avis, who was found dead
in bed at his home west Of Montrose,
but as the deceased had been under
the care of physician the day be-
fore, he did not consider 1t necessary
to hold an inquest over the death.
Mrs. T. F. Phillips died at her
home in Los Angeles, Cal, October
%. word being received here of her
demise. Her husband, T. e. Phillips,
who survives her, is well known
among the older residents of Keokuk,
having been a merchant hero twenty
years ago.
Davenport Democrat: j. u. Sam
mis- of Sioux City, grind exa'ted ruler
of the B. P. o. E, in the United
States, is to be the guest of Dayen-
port odge No. 29S of the Elks on
Tuesday, December 81, at special
ceremonies that are to be held in his
honor. A laroe class will be initiated
on that occasion, and following these
exercises there will be- banquet and
toast program.
1t is said of one OF the visiting c.,
B. & O. officials who were in the city
on Tuesday, holding conference with
the shippers and jobbers, that after
the business session was over, he step
ped into blacksmith shop and con-
versed genially with the proprietor,
saying that he once welded the sledge
himself and to prove his remarks
picked UP a heavy hammer and dem
onstrated his ability. Some think that
a railroad man is only good at rail-
road job, but this would demonstrate
the falseness Of that statement.