The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-18
CITY NEWS.

at MrS. r.. Hans son lSU4 ExChdHge
st. Friday afternoon and evening 1nc.
"A marriage license was issued
late yesterday afternoon to Otis
Taylor, aged 81. and Eliza Luz
ella Beghtol, aged 10. both of Keo-
kuk.
Regular meeting OF Puckecaetuck
encampment No. Z. 1. o. O. F.. at Odd
Fellows hail at s o'clock tonight. Wis
ng brethren fraternally invited to
attend.
Regular meeting of Keokuk Aerie,
No 6S3. f. o. E. tonight at Eagles
Hall, Sth and Main at O'Clock, visit
ing brothers always welcome. Chas.
A. Noakes, Secretary.
We now have on display early
fall pattern hats, sailors. ready to
wear and untrimmed hats. Hats and
tams for children. Inspection invited.
The c. & G. millinery Co.
-Keokuls lodgs. No. ESQ. A. o. o.
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. c. ". Trott, NJ. W.. Ed w.
Moore. Recorder.
Sherwood repairs harness and
does it right. 703 Main.
u. j. Walker and others have
conveyed to ]. E. Lively all the land
lying west of the highway running
through some of the west ten acres
of lot and the west % 1-3 acres of
lot of the northeast IL of section
| 23, township 65, north of range 5,
west.
For the first time in many years
the coal output of Iowa will fall off,
according to the forthcoming biennial
report of the state mine commission
Because of the two months strike
| last spring it is stated the total tom
mage of coal mined in Iowa will fall
| off about quarter of a million tons.
/ DIR. George NJ. Chapel, director
of the Iowa weather and crop SER
vice bureau, has computed the def
cheney of rain this year as compar-
/ ed with last year. The rain we didn't
/ get since January /, he says, il all as
sembled, would make lake twenty
/ five feet deep, eight miles wide and
| 200 miles long.
4 Nearly 1000 corporations in Iowa
have SO far failed to send their an
nual fee of 81 to the secretary of
state They will soon receive sec
ond notice On Setember ! the fee car
! ries a penalty of 50, making total
of So; on October it carries a pen
atty Of 81, making 81 in all, and SO
keeps on rising at degree that en-
Icourages prompt payment.
1t will be gratifying news to
Iowa farmers that Iowa bankers re-
i port the banks Of this state will
have money enough to move the fall
crops without sending piteous ap-
peal to the east for assistance. 1t is
4 reported from North Dakota, where
there will prorably be less than one
half crop that prosperity there is of
such an extent that none will suffer.
4 Bugg;es selling cheap at Sher-
woods.
j DIR. G. E. Ruth writes to The
Gate City from st. James, Mich,
that he expects to be in Keokuk for
at least five weeks, beginning with
| the middle cf September and that he
has not decided to locate in st. Louis
He has promised to deliver special
course of lectures on surgery in one
Of the medical colleges there but
does not expect the series to occupy
more than weeks time.
Fifty doctors attended the spe
cial meeting of the state board oil
health in Des Moiaes yesterday. te
listen to the report of DR.. Frost Of
the government service, who has
! been investigating the epidemic Of
infantile paralysis at Mason City
City, but that cases may be expected
: in these parts until cooler weather
He admits that he can not under
stand the cause of the disease OF
recommend a treatment. He does
however, urge the most important
sanitary methods.
Quincy Journal: Dr. NJ Rewena
Morse left Keokull this morning al
1885 for Ithaca, N. Y, accompanied
by her mother. There she will stay
until the first of September and will
make her home at Cape Cod during a
greater part of the time between
now and the first Of the month
About Sept. LIST DR.. Morse goes tc
Kenosha, Wis, to take up her work
there until the first of next year. In
January 1911, she will go to New
York to give series OF lectures be
fore literary society The perma
nent address of Rev. Morse will be
512 Edgewood Place, Ithaca, n. Y.
Funeral services were conducted
Il yesterday afternoon at two o'clock
in the Zion church two and hall
miles west OF the city for the late
Mrs. Lottie Allen Hamill who passed
away at her home near this city, last
Monday night at 10 O'Clock after ar
Illness of several months with tuber
culosis. Mrs. Hamill was twenty-five
years old and was born in Wisconsin