The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-09
CITY NEWS.

rine chicken and lamb. MaTkley.
-Fwers Mccarthy Co.'S hats are cor
rect.
Go with the crowd tomorrow to
LeBron's.
ALI new motion pictures tonight
at the Air Dome.
School hosiery, 10, 123s Is. 25c
pair at Central Store.
See the pictures at the Air Dome
tonight. All new.
Hosiery that will wear at 15c and
25c pair at Central Store.
Particular attention given to re-
pairing of your shoes at Karle's.
Fur, plush and wool lap robes and
blankets at Sherwood's. Big new line.
New outings, 8, s 1-3, 10, l25sc
yard. Select them now at the Central.
ID. w. Haggerty has transferred
to E. D. Rockefeller, lot S, block EOS,
Ten cents; sit where you like, at
the Air Dome. Three good pictures.
two songs.
There will be preaching at 1880
O'Clock tonight at the United Presby-
terrain church preparatory to commune
ion on next Sunday.
Henry Schaefer has returned home
from Chicago where as a delegate he
attended the national convention of
post office clerks held there this week.
Clarence H. Graft is the new tray-
cling salesman on Wilkinson Co.'S
force. Mr.. Graft was formerly with
the Iowa Drug Co., Of Des Mcines.
and will move his family here shortly.
Hundreds of Keokukians who took
in the Donnellson fair yesterday ar
rived home on the Burlington's spec
ial, having enjoyed the afternoon out
ing. 1t was the largest crowd ever
present at Donnellson fair.
The c. B. & @. derrick passed
through the city this morning on its
way to Des Moines where it will be
engaged in moving three carloads of
bridge iron, which is to be used in
the construction of the new bridge
which will be built across the Des
Moines river as soon as possible.
"A suit for divorce was brought to-
day in the district court by Margaret
Weier against Frederick Weier. They
were married March 81, 1894, at Cam
den, n. ]. Cruel and inhuman treat
ment is charged. The wife asks for
the custody of the following children:
Harold IA, Marie II, Ruth 9, Charles
and Margaret 6.
The news appearing In last
nights Gate City announcing the in
tention of the water power people to
proceed with the making of abstracts
preparatory to taking up the land OPP
tons was received with decided pleas.
ure by the citizens of Keokuk. Today
Attorney J. o. Boyd, who has accepted
a permanent position with the water
power company, moved his office head
quarters from North Sixth street to
the company's headquarters on North
Third.
Russell l. Conner, another Keo-
kuk young man, has purchased the
interest of w. E. Ewing in the vollers-
Ewing Co.'S grocery. Mr.. vollers and
Mr.. Conner will appreciate the patron
age of their friends. Store, SIC Main
street. Both phones
Quincy Wing: One man seriously
! injured-half of the roof of the east
wall of the machine room caved in
one transformer entirely demolished
one direct power dynamo put out of
commission and an alternating cur
rent dynamo injured-these and other
minor damages occurred yesterday
morning when the heavy rains caused
the big concrete and stone retaining
wall OF the Leader Foundry and Ma
chine shops to fall over and crash
through the roof and east wall of the
Quincy Electric company's power
\ plant on Front street. The heavy
/ mass OF stone and cement comprising
4 the retaining wall was loosened by the
I effect of continuous rains and the
4 pressure of a hill of wet soil and CLAW
was too much for it to stand. The
crash came at 11:15 o'clock yesterday
morning, and for moment it seemed
that the entire lighting plant was
doomed to destruction, but only hall
of the foundry retaining wall fen In
and thus only about half of the light
plant was demolished. Fast work on
the part of Manager Harry Channon
and Superintendent Hess had the
lighting machinery working again an
hour and fifteen minutes after the
accident, and by 1890 the power cir
cult was being fed by the street cal
company's plant.
John Cort has won another victory
over the theatrical trust. He ha.
signed contracts with Peter McCour,
which gives the Cort.Shubert combfna
ton control of the Broadway and the
Grand opera house of Denver for
period of ten years. The arrange
ment also give Mr. Cort control O
the bookings of the theatres which gt
to form the Silver circuit, including
the Grand opera house, Pueblo; the
Opera House, Colorado Springs; the
Victor theatre, Victor; the Elk the
alter, Leadville; the Park opera house
Grand Junction; the Curran opera
house, Boulder; and about ten other
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