The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-11
CITY NEWS.

! light. |
See crandall's last cali ad on
Page S.
"A real musical treat at Dodges
tonight.
Read the Wabash ad. 1t viii In
terest you.
Lot 5000 to $3.50 tub-suits, choice
at $s.9S. N. Lowitz's.
Summer goods are going at a
sacrifice at Centrals sale.
Fresh catfish at Joe Haubert's,
100 Main street. Both phones.
Lot $500 waists, at csc. 5000
designs at s1.49. N. Lowitzs.
Low prices on buggies and har-
ness at Sherwood's, 7o3 Main
Won Hampton and Joselyn, high
class singing, talking and dancing act
at the Air Dome tonight.
The water in the river has be-
come almost too low for launch men
to venture out to any great extent
these days with their pleasure craft
and at the present time, the sport Of
motor boating is dull
The sky last night was full OF
shooting stars and young comets
leaping about with great agility. The
| heavens were mass of beautiful
| orbits and the night with its young
moon was perfect one to be spent
out of doors.
The little son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo. w. Patee had the misfortune to
| fall and break his arm while playing
at his grandfather's home in Canton
! yesterday. Mr.. and Mrs. Patee went
to Canton last evening to be with
their son.
-Keokuk lodge, No. 256, A. o. U.
W., meets every Thursday night at
1880 o'clock at hall over Keokuk Saw
ings bank corner Fifth and Main
streets. Visiting brethren cordially
invited. G. w. Trott. NJ. W.. Ed. W.
Moore. Recorder.
/ The Keokuk baseball team arrived
in the city this morning at 12:45
from Kewanee. All Of the members
of the club we're pretty much tired
and for the most part the local diam
ond heroes were pounding their ears
when they arrived here.
The north bound passenger train
was forty-flve minutes late last even
ing in arriving here, delay being &C.
casioned by the large amount of bag
gage and express that is being handled
along the route between Keokuk and
st. Louis, at this time of year.
BLUR park campers receive their
mail each morning at the resort, a
carrier from Montrose delivering the
posts at the foot OF the stairs where
there is always group of young
ladies awaiting the arrival of the
cards, letters and other precious
! packages.
Next Sunday the Eagles will hold
their annual festival in the grove at
!! Twenty-fcurth and Main street. OPP
posite the Tanning property. This is
one of the larger events in Eagle
circles during the year and is one
/ hailed with delight by the members
/ of the lodge and their friends.
To date, 971 dogs have had their
licenses paid The police ave made
a good clean up and there are but few
Of the animals left that have not had
/ their taxes settled for and have
| right of residence here. Three and
! four dogs and sometimes a half doz-
en- are put in the gas box at the back
of the police station each afternoon
and killed.
The brother of ]. Truitt Maxwell,
the former we'll known physical direc-
tor here. left this. city last evening
for Chicago and from there will go to
his home in Indiana for visit,
where he expects f. meet his brother
4 who is on his way to Omaha. Young
Maxwell is a typical westerner, having
been in the Dakotas where he has
been conducting a pool and billiard
hall He visited yesterday with
/ friends here.
The ladies of the Unitarian church
will give an excursion to Quincy this
month if the water raises enough to
permit that undertaking. The outing
which was to have been given by them
on the ]. S. the twenty-sixth Of this
month was necessarily cut short by
the burning of that big boat and nat
urally there is much disappointment
from all quarters. everyone knowing
of the success that attends all affairs
that the ladies of the Unitarian
/ church give.
The first legal gun to be fired In
the lopg-threatened campaign against
the directors of the Modern Woodmen
of America, is suit in equity at
Rock Island, H., by T. c. Hennings.
an attorney of ST. Louis, represent
ing C. D. Oberholtzer of Marseilles,
Ill. The court is asked to enjoin the
board of directors from paying further
', sums of money to R. r. Smith and H.
p. Murphy, two members of the board.
1t is asserted that each member Of the
board of directors is paid $4,000 a
year, while Head Counsel Talbot is
paid $4,000. TIL, bylaws declare
that no member OF the board may be
connected with any outside interest,
but must devote his entire timo to the
ordor Tn defianca IN fhis tIie com