The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-10
CITY NEWS.

Smoke Moeller's Silver Ash cigar.
Sherwood's s, horse blankets, 81 up.
Expert shoe repairing while you
wait. John Karle's, S14 Main.
The Woman's Guild of Graham
hospital will meet at the nurses lone
tomorrow Afternoon at o'clock.
Elizabeth Pearce has transferred
to Amada Pearce, her sister, lot IN
block 80, the property being between
Sixth and Seventh on Bank street.
-Nauvoo will get its first railroad
now, for the building of the water
power project, almost assures that
place Of its long expected trolley line.
Within thirty months, KeokuK
will be furnishing electrical power to
st. Louis and all cities between and
to other points within 100 miles OF
here
Masonic Regular meeting of Har-
din lodge No. 30. A. F. and A. NJ,
at 1880 this evening. Visiting broth
ers fraternally invited to attend. By
order Of W. NJ. A. K. Stewart.
Hundreds of copies of The Gate
City are being mailed out of town
these days by Keokuk people to
friends and relatives. giving thom the
information about the water power
/ As Keokuk progresses and grows
while the water power dam is being
built, The Gate City intends to grow
with 1t and the paper will be en-
larged and improved just as fast as
the city improves
Fred Hilpert, Jr., who together
with Henry Brandt of Mt Hamill,
Iowa, closed the deal Wednesday for
the purchase of the Beck farm of $50
acres at Mt. Clara, stated today that
the purchase price was $4,000.
The Standard Fire Insurance
Co. ordered several hundred copies of
! the Extra, Gate City of Saturday
noon which contained the water
power history, to be sent to I'll of the
agents of the company in this vicin
| ity. The company believes in adver
Using Keokuk at all times.
Glen Ross, the young fellow witt
whisky fits who was in serious condi
ton at the police station Saturday
evening, had another spell last nigh
and 1t was necessary to summon +;
doctor. Quincy is the home of Ros:
and he will be sent there this even
ing If in condition to do.
M. ]. Burke, trustee of thu
Knights of Columbus, stated to a re
porter this morning that the council
would not have to vacate its presen
home on account of water power boom
Mr.. Burke received this information
from E. S. Baker. owner of the Fiftl
street building.
| The Daily Gate City gave Keokul
tremendous amount of advertising
through the issuance of its extra edi
ton. Copies Of the paper were sen
all over the world. This office PRINTED
over ten thousand copies OF the extr,
and approximately the sane nus1be
of the regular Sunday morning ed
tion
Many persons are walking acros
the ice today and yesterday there wer
many who took the frozen water wa
of getting to and from the Illinoi
shore In a number or places air hole
occur, but the ice is strong enough t
hold horse and sleigh. One part
drove up from Warsaw and returne
that way On the ice.
"A meeting of the Keokuk bar ha
been called for Tuesday morning at 1
o'clock, to pass resolutions of respec
for the late Judge H. H. Trimble, tn
oldest member of the bar The mee
ing is to be held at the district cour-
and the Fort Madison bar has bee
invited to attend. Judge H. Bank, Jr
announced today that court would az
journ for the day.
The annual meeting of the HI
name society is to be held tomorrow
evening at 7:45 O'Clock in the room
} OF the Commercial club, at which tim
J officers will be elected for the ensi
] ing year. The meeting was postpone
from last Tuesday night on accoun
: of the weather
The Nauvoo Rustler is a hustle
and got out an extra on Saturday al
nouncing the water power. 1t col
sisted of yellow handful with tn
picture of growing rooster, with tn
following announcement "Hurrah
for the water power. Word has bee
received from the east that the bull
ing of the water power is assured an
work will commence Immediately"
, There were a number of Keoku
citizens who vigorously have bee
skeptical about the water power pr
iect and freely predicting that it neve
would be built Those few citizen
have now crawled in hole and pulle
the hole in after them. They have a
t been forgiven and are welcomed
: front seat in the boosters row frol
> now on.
d Are they going to start tn
: work on the Illinois side with eel
bration?" inquired Mayor Charle
t Off of Gate City reporter last SUI
S day The reporter replied in tn