The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25
CITY NEWS.


Sharpening Stones just received. A.
Weber Co.
Read what the Bloomington Sun
day Bulletin" said of "a Country
Maid"
If you have the blues and want to
cheer UP, come and watch the black
face party at the Roll-a-way Friday
evening.
The Drexel and ST. Peters bowl.
ing clubs will clash this evening at
the Drexel bowling alleys in the final
contest of the week.
There should be two large audi
ences out to see "a Country Maid"
next Saturday, at the special prices"
announced.
Tonight is the regular meeting for
the school board meeting but there
will be nc meeting on account of the
di, ectors having attended to the bust
ness of the month before, at special
meeting.
A suit for divorce has been filed
in the district court by Winnie May
Burt VS.. William D. Burt, charging
cruel and inhuman treatment The pc
tition is brief one and states that
the couple were married on April 20,
1898.
You don't know what you will
miss if you don't black up and skate
at the Roll-a-way Friday evening. No
one will know you, and you will have
them all guessing who YOU are. Two
pair of Richards skates given away as
prizes.
To the roller skaters, get up a
party and black up and come down to
the Roll-a-way Friday evening. No
one will know you and think of the
fun you will have and you may win
the prize. Two pair of Richards skates
given as prizes.
George Rideout, the negro who
was picked up at the Union depot yes
terday afternoon by Officer P rson
as fugitive from justice, was taken
to Kirksville last evening by the dep
uty sheriff, who came over to Keokuk
and got the man who was trying to
jump his bond.
A nubmer Of days ago, Homer
Jones, an employe of the Hotel Keo-
kuk, had an overcoat stolen from his
locker. The loss was reported to the
police and Officer Holiday worked out
the case until he got the coat back and
arrested Charlie Tone who was locked
up and an information filed against
him charging him with larceny.
The order recently put in effect
lington requiring all train, engine and
yard employees to secure an identified
ton slip In order to get their checks
each month, is proving good plan
and will be tried on the entire system
Some months ago an unknown person
called for Conductor B. o. Ward s
check, and it was given to him. When
Mr. Ward called he was told that the
check had been given out, and thus he
was put to considerable trouble in
securing his money.
The attention of those interested
in river improvement has been called
to the rapid formation of a sand bar
above the Quincy bridge very. near the
approach of the draw, through which
all steamboats, are obliged to pass
Capt. Handy of Quincy, who is an Ole
river man says that the bar is seri
Gus menace to safe navigation and II
not removed will, in the course of two
or three years. divert the channel fal
enough away from the draw to render
it useless, and in the meantime may
cause many serious accidents. which
are only escaped now through the ex
IRENE caution of the pilots He advo
Gates an immediate appeal by the pilo
associations to the United State.
board of engineers at Rock Island. III.
; or, if necessary, to the aut critics a
Washington.
) Railroads are having all kinds o
trouble these days with DRINKS an,
disorderlies on the trains and specia
; detectives are riding all passenge
. trains at numerous intervals. TIL
: officers are picking up numbers O
. offenders and they are being seyerelt
fined in most cases. A few days sine
. new form of crime took place on
crowded car going out of Bushnell !
foreign whose home is at Astoria
; became angry because the car wa
crowded, and he was obliged to 90 In
to the smoker for seat. Before leay
ing the coach he scattered handful
OF cayenne pepper over the ylace. TIL
OBJECT of it was extremely vaoyin
and the many women and en-. h.n il
the car suffered very seriously fror
his despicable act. Legal Lotion Wi
be taken against the offender.