The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-01
CITY NEWS
Smoke Moeller's Silver Ash ciga
The Air Dome changes bill to

SMOKE MOeilerS SILVER ASH cigar
The Air Dome changes bill to-
night.
Harness and buggies cheap at
Sherwoods.
Tonight the all new bill will please
you at the Air Dome
DIR. ]. A. scroggs is quite sick at his
home, suffering from wound upon
his foot which occurred some time
ago and which has become aggravated.
Masonic regular meeting of Eagle
lodge No. ~, A. F. & A. NJ, s ocl
Tuesday evening. August 2, 1910. Visit
ing brethren fraternally invited. BY
order of the w. NJ. S. H. Johnston,
secretary.
The room at the corner of Main
, and Sixth streets formerly occupied
by the Five and Ten Cent store, has
been rented BIZ Miss Ella Tanning,
who will move into the new location
about the fifteenth of the present
| month.
The weather summary for the
month of July as just issued by OBJ
server Gosewisch, shows that there
We're 16 clear days and ten thunder
storms during the month. No records
were broken. The mean temperature
was 76 with SO as the hottest and s..
as the coolest. The total rainfall for
!! the month was 274 inches.
Earle Y. Wills has secured small
piece of the hemp rope by which
John Ju.nkin, the murderer, was hang
i ed in Fort Madison Friday. Many
/ people obtained souvenirs of this kind
while others slivered the pine box In
which the body was shipped to Des
Moines, in order that they might have
! remembrance of one of Iowa's few
nangings.
i The government dredge Hecla is
cleaning out the accumulation of mud
4 and sand that has gathered between
the lower lock gate and the bridge
draw. The Hecla is a suction dredge
and draws the mud and water from
the bottom and carries 1t through
pipes out over the guard boom. A
small sand bar is already formed at
/ the mouth of the discharge pipe.
"A team attached to wagon OF
/ lumber became frightened at an auto
this morning and started on a tear
/ but were stopped by running into the
Rock Island freight house. The two
/ men on the load were thrown off d,
/ the force of the wagon hitting he
1 horses. Had he team contin
Il ued in the direction they were headed
i there would probably have been con
siderable damage done as there were
two hearses and accompanying car
| riages at the back side of the depot.
4 through which the team and wagon
L would have passed.
i Something new and different at
the Air Dome tonight
+ The new directory soon to be is
/ sued by the Iowa telephone company
will contain an Improvement in the
I numbers that will be gladly WELDON
ed by IT, subscribers. Instead of hay
/ ing the numbers followed by the let
| ters "R' and B. the words Red and
! Blue will be used which will be easiey
for central to understand and also cas-
Ter for the subscriber to get correctly
for when they look up number in {
1 hurry, at glance the letters r and E
/ look a great deal alike. The straight
line phones will be the same as a.
present, that is without any letter fol
lowing the numbers
"A portion of the property Of ST
Mary's Academy Nauvoo, was sold al,
masters sale IN Carthage Saturday. +
satisfy an Indebtedness incurred ir
erecting new buildings William Z
O'Neal acting as trustee for the sew.
eral claimants. became the purchaser
on his bid of s3-5,s25. Five Sisters
sold life insurance policies for $4,000
each in the British Mutual Life In
surance company. there is still indebt-
edness of s250,000 on the institution
in the matter connected with P. J.
the matter connected with P. j.
Kieran.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: Frank Nor.
ton said: Il believe some of our per
pie discovered Ottumwa the othe
day. To tell the truth. Burlington
people know very little of the neigh
, boring towns. Some of them have
been to Fort Madison, and few have
acauaintances at Mt. Pleasant Keo
kuk and Mediapolis, But 95 ont of the
100 know more OF Chicago, st. Loui
and New York than they know o.
such towns as ottuuwa. Davenport
Cedar Rapids. etc. We have not beer
very neighborly in recent wears an,
1t seems to me that we should gal,
IN many respects and that we SHOULD
learn many things that would inter
est us, If we were to get on bette
terms with our neighbors. Not tina
we are on unfriendly terms wit
them Ear from 1t We siInniv do no