The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-10
Double Dose For the Voters Of TWO
Of the Wards While All Can
Vote on Commission
Plan.
MAYORS PROCLAMATION
Sets Time For Expression Of Voters
on Commission Plan and Also
Election Of Two Alder
men.

July / will be election day in Keo-
kuk.
That date has been set for the
election on the commission plan,
WREN Keokuk voters will give their
orinion as to whether Keokuk should
accept the commission plan of gov
eminent or not.
This date has also been set as the
date for the election of an alderman
IN the fourth and sixth wards, to fill
TIE unexpired terms of Charles OF
and w. Frank Brown, resigned.
Within few days, the election
notices will be made, giving the To-
cstion of the polls, the hours of vot-
ing, etc.
The Mayors Proclamation.
Mayor on issued his proclamation
last evening, calling the special cleo
ton for July i, in answer to the Pc
Triton which was handed him some
time ago, signed by hundreds of citi-
zens and asking for special cleo
ton on the commission proposition.
The question for tbs people to vote
m will be whether to adopt the COM
mission plan OF government for the
city. If majority are in favor then
Keokuk will have the commission
plan of government and primary cleo
tions and election of commissioners
will follow, but If the proposition is
lost, the matter cannot come up
again for certain length Of time.
The Two Aldermen.
Every voter in the city will have
chance to vote on the commission
plan proposition. but the voters in
tile fourth and sixth wards will have
an extra vote coming, being given a
chance to vote for an alderman In
each ward.
Primaries will be held in these two
/ wards in a few days by both parties,
| for the purpose of selecting candi-
dates and after the candidates are
named, the campaign will be on, in
which the residents of the other
wards can sit idly by and look on,
bit everyone can join in the commits
sion plan campaign and argue on
whichever side they wish.
The Proclamation.
/. Charles Off. mayor of the City OF
Keokuk, Iowa, do proclaim that hav'
1 ing received a petition signed by more
than IS percentum of the qualified
| electors Of the City of Keokuk, as
shown by the last municipal election,
requesting me to submit to the said
electors, the question::
"Shall the proposition to orgaize
the City of Keokuk, Iowa, under chap
ter fourteen IA c. of the supplement
of the code 1907, as amended by the
Thirty-third General Assembly be
adopted"
THEREFORE, l, tae said Mayor, dc
4 declare that special election will be
4 held in the City of Keokuk, Iowa. on
the first "a day of July, A. D., 1909
at the usual places of holding an cleo
ton, and this question to be submit
ted to voters at said election shall be
"Shall the proposition to organize the
City of Keokuk, Iowa, under chapter
Fourteen IA @ OF the supplement OIL
the code 1907 as amended by the acts
of the Thirty-third General Assembly
be adopted?'
4 further declare that special cleo
ton for one alderman in the Fourth
(4) ward and one in the Sixth (6th)
ward shall be held at the same time
The alderman in the Fourth 9th
ward to fill the unexpired term o.
Charles OFF resigned, and that in the
Sixth (6th) ward to fill the unexpiret
term of w. F. Brown resigned.
Witness my. hand this 9th day o
June A. D., 1909.
CHARLES OFF,
Mayor of the City of Keokuk, Iowa.