The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-12
CITY NEWS.


-Ewers' Grand Leader, best sc cigar
j. c. Karle repairs your shoes
while you wail. S14 Main street
Special for Thursday, one 4S II.
sack -four $1.40 at De Jong's.
The only place In the city for first
class cleaning and dyeing IS at
Blanks. 924 Main street Iowa phone
249-Biack.
DIR. C. E. Ruth will be in the Of
fee of w. G. Howell. attorney. to II
a. m. and to p. m. No. is North
Fifth street.
Regular meeting OF Hermann
lodge, No. 116. I. o. o. F.. tonight at
1880 o'clock. Visiting brethren cordial
ly invited.
-Keokuk Camp NJ. w. A. NO. 6c2
will hold its regular meeting tonight
at Woodman hall. All members are
requested to &c present.
Two new telegraph tables have
been. installed at the Union depot
telegraph department in connection
| with other new office fixtures, thus
making 1t compare with the other up
to-date stations along the line.
w. A. Fleming of st. Louis, brotl
er of H. D. Fleming of this city, died
in that city last Friday. Burial SER
vices were held on Sunday. The de-
ceased had been i'll for some time
with tuberculosis of the bone.
Favorable comment is being pass
ed on the new electric light which
has recently been installed on the
corner Of Fourth and Orleans by all
of the people in that vicinity for a
| light on that corner has long been
needed. The party who is to be cred
tied for this improvement is unknown.
Theodore Meyling, craftsman at
the lower lock, who, for the past two
weeks has been assisting Capt. Fet-
| ter on his inspection trip down the
river, was called back to this city as
several plans are to be made for the
erection of new barges. His po-
sition as assistant inspector will be
occupied by E. 7. Love.
20. B. Harrell, the we'll known con-
ductor on the c. B. & @. passenger
trains was compelled to tender his
resignation owing to his health which
has been falling him for several
years 1t is hoped by his many
friends that he will recover as he is
considered one of the most friendly
railroad men that pass to and from
this city.
| Davenport Times: The petition
| to have the proposition of establishing
commission plan of city govern
ment placed on the ballot at the COM
| ing election, are being circulated
about the city and are receiving many
signatures. From the number who
have signed and expressed their in
tention of signing when they see the
papers. it Is now thought that there
will be but little doubt but that the
matter will be submitted.
Kansas City Star: Always look
at your feet while buying hat. Mrs.
Jesse w Tobey, in charge of the mil
linery department at the Teachers
college, evolved the boot and bonnet
philosophy. She has just returned
from Paris. 81 always insist that my
pupils trim their hats in front of a
mirror long enough to reflect their en-
tire length down to their feet ex-
planned Mrs Tobey. "If you cannot
see your feet you cannot judge wheth-
| err or not hat Is becoming to your
/ general lines. A hat may suit the
face well enough, but be utterly I'M
| becoming when you stand or walk.
One half of the children who died
in Iowa during the month of Septem
/ Der, succumbed to preyentable dis
eases, according to Secretary Sumner
/ of the state board of health, who is
now preparing his monthly statement
of deaths. The September record
shows that 432 children died during
| the month, of which number over
half. or 1875, died of cholera infantum
a disease due to poor and improper
feeding SO one can see that one-half
of the babies who died during the
i month could have been saved" sait
i DR. Sumner. The records OF the
state health board show that on the
average one-third of all the deaths are
among the babies and one-half Of tho
babies could be saved.