The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-29
CITY NEWS.

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700 Main Street, both phones.
For coal, wood and cement, see
j. c. McManus, 9th and Johnson. Both
phones.
-Tableaux seven ages of woman,
First Baptist church, Friday evening.
25 and 15c.
The south bound passenger train
No. IL, was fifteen minutes late upon
it's arrival in this city this morning.
The very prettiest thitss of til
very highest quality at the very loN
est price at the G. & G. Millinery
1 Store
DR.. c. e. Ruth will be in the Of
fee OF w. c. Howell, attorney. to II
a. m. and to p. M. No. is North
Fifth street.
w. L. Hawkins have conveyed to
]. W. Peterson, O. F. Peterson and
Samuel Peterson 100 acres of land
on the other side of Hickory Grove
school house.
! The steamer Wenona arrived last
night at 9:35 and departed this morn
! ing at 1885. The Keokuk arrived
at 9:45 and left this morning at $50.
Both boats carried large consignments
of freight to and from this city.
The steamer Adeline, which was
tied up in the canal sprung leak
and had to be taken to the dry docks
1 to be repaired It was towed to its
1 destination By the government gaso-
line launch, Madge.
The employees OF the Keokuk and
Hamilton bridge have been engaged
( for the past few days installing gen
eral repairs to the bridge. The work
is under the direction OF chief engtn-
eer, j. L. Wilson.
-Keokul- lodge. No. 256. A. O. q.
". meets every Thursday night at
40 o'clock at hall over Keokuk Saw.
ings bank corner Fifth and Main
streets. Visiting brethren cordially
invited. c. W. Trott. M. W., Ed W.
Moore. Recorder.
When the Keokuk Bowling asso-
citation meets tonight for reorganiza-
ton, plan of putting the league on
an amateur basis will be advanced.
President Leroy Wolf has received a
letter from Norris A. King, urging
such move A free discussion Of
TIE matter is expected this evening.
Burlington Gazette: Deputy United
States Marshal Bert Dunlap, whose
face is as fmiliar in this city as any
place else, has been transferred to
! Ottumwa as an office deputy. Mr. Dun
lap hailed from Keokuk originally and
is one of the most astute government
sleuths and gallant veteran of the
| Spanish-American war.
Burlington Gazette: Viola NJ
Cain, the 6-year-old daughter of Will
liam c. Cain of sol South Central Ave
nue., and Fern, Gertrude and Eugene
Cain, stepchildren, will inherit $685.
| 756 each as the result Of the will left
/ by their great-great uncle, F. A. Og-
| den, of Madison, Wisconsin Mr. Cain,
who is a. laborer and now employed
| by T. L. Rogers in the erection of a
house on Summer street, has been ap-
pointed guardian of his child's money.
visions of the will and expects to go
to Madison In a short time to look
after the child's interest.
Fort Madison Democrat: The
Fraternal Order of Eagles initiated a
class last night which was largely
attended by the members OF the local
aerie and by the following out-of
town visitors: C. H. Phillips. Tren
ton, Mo, Aerie No 70; Ray Trump
Keokuk, Iowa, Aerie No. 6S3; George
!. Schloch, Donnellson, Iowa, Aerie No
i 1887; O. Eberth, Marceline, Mo-, Aerie
No. 726; T. ]. Hill. Parsons, Kas.
Il Aerie No. All; Geo Louck, Monmouth
H., Aerie No. 1852. The following
class of four were initiated into the
order: j. T. Easterbrook, Fort Madi
son, Iowa; Joe Leveling, West Point
Iowa; Jas T. Neal, Fort Madison, Ia;
T. J. Moses, Fort Madison, Ia.
For years, it has been customary
: for the expert and those aspiring to
be expert checker players, to gather
in the stock room OF the Crimmins &
Chase undertaking establishment tc
take on, game or two each after
, noon, and on cold winter mornings
: There are a half a dozen players ir
!. Keokuk who lay claim to the cham
, pionship and in fact several of these
manipulators of the little wooder
disks, have come to be sharks al
the art of playing the cts your
move game. Yesterday afternoon
however, a little Of the pep" ant
3 conceit was taken out OF several O
E these champ players when a maj
, from Ottumwa happened Into the un
e dertaking parlors. He was travel
i ing man, selling corsets, elsewhere
: unmentionables. One by one he tool
r the local checker sharpers to an aw
9 full cleaning" All except Uncle
George Englehardt, the veteran of al
the players and Uncle George bea
the Ottumwa man two straights. San
Anderson, Hi Stebbins and some o
and other stellar performers on thu
blocked board tried their luck witt
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