The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-02
CITY NEWS.


Have harness repaired at sher-
woods.
Ten voting coupons with every ad-
mission ticket tonight, Colonial, thea
ire beautiful
Everything for your feet, ankle
supporters, tread air cushions, heel
cushions. etc. See ]. Karle. S14
Main.
The lamb like weather which ugh
cred in March. continues today, the
morning opening mild and clear with +
springlike feeling.
-Keokuk Camp NJ. W. A. No. 622
will hold its regular meeting tonight
at woodman hall All members are
requested to he present.
MIR. and Mrs. Herman Schmidt, I
1918 johnson street, are the parents
of the ten and one-half pound baby |
girl, born Monday morning.
Attend the Hippodrome skating
/ rink. afternoon and evening. A place
of delight for ladies and gentlemen
who are seeking healthful pleasure
/ and rare vaudeville stunts.
Real estate activities are in
/ creasing. There is every indication
of continuation. The certainty OF
the big dam and its inestimable adj
vantage to this city is becoming more
and more apparent every day.
! The Hippodrome is open afternoon
and evenings. A most pleasant place
4 for the best patronage to spend their
4 leisure nours, seeking first class
vaudeville features and enjoying a
| pleasant hour or two skating.
Preparations are going on at the
Hippodrome for grand opening night,
Monday, March 7, when special pro-
i gram will be given All the patrons OF
the old Rolla-way rink will be cord
tally welcomed and will receive the
greatest courtesy of the present man
: agemen;.
l Subscriptions to The Gate City
: for papers sent by mail must, &C.
cording to the postoffice ruling, be
} paid for in advance. In sending sub
d scriptions to this paper be sure and
have the necessary amount accom-
o pany the order so there will Re M
d disappointment.
5 The chairman of the various com
niittees of the Y. NJ. C. A. enjoyed a
y dinner-conference as the guests of c,
), R. Joy in the dining room of the as
ISOLATION on Tuesday noon. LIST
y evening meeting of the board OF
: directors was held and plans and
business matters discussed. The re
ports of each committee on yesterday
n show up splendidly and the associa
. ton is in excellent condition
The most popular young lady con
test going on at Colonial, theatre
% beautiful, tonight.
a The Lee county board of super,is
ors met the Des Moines county bosrt
Q today to complete plans and bushes
o connected with the construction o
II Bridgeport bridge, over Skunk rive
in Denmark township. There will b.
=. much active bridge work this sprin:
ie and summer, there being somethin'
10 like five hundred large and small il
;, Lee county, which are in need OF re
n pair and number of new ones to b
- constructed. George w. Brinkmar
ie one of the Lee county board from TIL
city. left this morning for the plac
of today's meeting.
Sidney ]. Roy, secretary OF tn
Hannibal Commercial club. speaking
of Harnibars growth. stated that h
a. was satisfied that the new census
be taken shortly would show popr
a lation of 10000. while ten years ag
but $4,000 was shown. He also stat
> ed that the percentage of increase i
:, the number of hands employed IN u
factories and the percentage OF II
- increase in the amount of capital IL
at vested in factories would run hlghe
- than any city in Missouri, and POI
sibly in the Mississippi valley, woul
= be able to show.
Work on the oil well near Pl
- ~ mouth, ILL.,, has been stopped. OWN
- to the fact that the father OF one
the driliers, IIr Smith of Plymout
Z, is i'll and they do Lot care to risk
~ green hand at the drill at the dept
they are working. The shooting
- the we'll brought nothing, as W;
:, thought would be the case by gre
:. many who did not believe that 81
~. ficient depth had been reached. II
- well has been cleaned and there
90 no more sign of oil than there W;
before the shot. It is the intentlo
however, to go deeper. and if anoth
!" strike is made at better depth al
~. the appearances warrant, then a
10 other shot will be fired
pe e Quincy Herald. March came
~ like a prong-horned oof-whatev
ou that is. Pliny's natural history sa.
' =, that an oof is q cross between
.,lo avungzebe and 2 pffiffensnitch al
- .ne makes noise like an onk. Thu
,le Ward says he had an oof once but
80 crawled into his bed one night al
i' bit him in his sleep. He choked
J, and threw it out of the window, b
a'i in the morning there was four inch'
~ 2, of foam on the front porch. The 81
Wy nifcance of the month of March col
'ns ing in like an oof is not fully explai