The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-21
CITY NEWS.

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Big new bill Monday night at the
Air Dome.
Your plumbing work will receive
careful attention if you call on Sutton.
Use Wanda coffee. it's the best.
Csc pound. At Home Tea Co. Bot.
telephones
Entire change vaudeville acts,
songs and pictures Monday night at
the Air Dome.
Officer Frank Baldwin returned
last evening from viele where he went
to attend a funeral.
New machinery added to the
Leake Printing Co.'S plant. Better
equipped than ever to do the bes.
printing
Regular meeting OF Keokrk lodge
No IS. .. c. o. F.. Monday Eight al
8 o'clock. Visiting brethren fraternal
II invited.
u. ]. Walker has transferred to-
NJ. B. Pfaffe certain described prop
erty in section 33, township s., north
OF range 5 west, containing in all
about seventeen acres.
B. C. NJ. of the Westminster Sun
day school enjoyed picnic yesterday
afternoon at Cedar Glen, although the
pleasure of the trip was somewhat
marred by the rain and hail storm.
Heart balm in the sum of $4,000
is asked by Irene Miller, of Noda-
way county, Mo-, of Charles Weber,
a wealthy Louisa county farmer, in
"a breach of promise suit that has been
filed In the U. s. circuit court here.
w. c. Maxwell, general traffic
manager for the Wabash, was in the
city Saturday, visiting with his moth
er and brothers and sisters. Mr.. Max
well has recently returned from trip
over the Western Pacific and other
Gould lines.
Miss Cleeta McSurley, the young
daughter of j. H. McSurley, a wealthy
farmer living. two and one-half miles
north of Keosauqua, committed sui
eide by shooting herself with shot
gun. She was a. senior in the Keo-
sauqua high school. No cause is as
signed for her act.
John S. Richardson, member of
the New York Times force, accom-
panied by his brother, VIM. Richard
son, of Quincy, were in the city Fri
| day, visiting their old friend, Alex
E. tombstone, and took occasion to
visit the water power site on the Illi-
nois side.
Clarence Weisman, at the present
time assistant physical director in the
East Liberty branch of the Y. NJ. c.
4 A., at Pittsburg, has been asked to
take full charge of a similar depart
ment at Troy, n. ]. As Weisman is
contemplating entering school this
fall he has not yet decided as to what
Jcourse he will pursue.
Friends and Pensioners of Rev.
Geo. G. Williams In this city have re-
fceiyed souvenir post cards from that
clergyman, who is now with his wife
and daughter IN. England. Rev. Will
Hams old home. Rev. Williams and
family will sail for home some time
the last of this month or the first OF
next.
John e Silver. farmer living
about four and a half miles east Of
Cantril, Iowa, hung himself in his
buggy shed Friday morning. His hired
hand discovered him and cut him
down. Two physicians were called and
succeeded in saving his life. Mr. Sill
yer had recently sold his farm, and it
is thought that brooding over the sale
caused his mind to become unbal-
anced.
A deplorable state and one very
dangerous to the health of the people
1 in the vicinity Is the condition in
which the sewerage at the end of the
main sewer under the Seventh street
bridge is in at present. The sewer
tempties into the creek known as
/ Bloody Run and in a wet season the
refuse is carried down to the river,
I but with dry spell like the one just
past the matter forms foul smelling
/ cesspools along the bottom of the
creek. Enough typhoid germs breed
under these conditions to cause an ep-
fdemic that would fiji the hospitals
to oyerfiowing. Lime was placed in
the pools and the rain last evening
helped the conditions little.
Fire started early Saturday morn
ing at a quarter past three o'clock
\ in the double two story frame resi-
dence occupied by the Pulls and
Hough families at Second and Fulton
streets The blaze which was bad
one but which was kept from spread
4 ing to adjoining property. was sup
! posed to have originated from a Gig
arctic thrown carelessIy In one of the
/ apartments of the house. Mrs. Ann
( PULLS and son David who reside in
I one side of the house. awoke and dis
covered their home in flames They
/ quickly made exit, scantily attired, as
/ did Grace and Hiram Hough, who
/ live in the other half Of the house.
The alarm of fire was turned in by
Mrs. James Simon who lives next
door to the burning building, at 209
! Fulton Mrs. Simon had been wake
/ full on account of illness and discov-
cred her neiphhor's nr0nerty hIazino