The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-26
CITY NEWS.
The Daily Gate City.
Attend muslin sale at Centr,

ldHoS LOO, at AyreS special sale.
Use Gate City want ad and get
results.
New buggies and harness. sher-
| woods.
-Frou Frou cakes made in Holland
at Reck's grocery.
Two more days OF Centrals big
skirt and petticoat sale.
Take your shoe repair work to J..
Z. karle, 814 Main street.
Base ball practice has been seri-
ously handicapped by the weather
man.
A Biograph "a beautiful biograph.
The Way of the World Colonial
theater beautiful tonigh.
Next Sunday, both morning and
evening Rev. n E. Cory will preach
at the Christian church at Hamilton.
The Way of the World the bio
graphs most powerful production. Co,
lonial theater beautiful tonight.
The Morning Star arrived in ST.
Louis from Louisville yesterday and
moored at the foot of Spruce street
The boat will make some more repairs
before starting up the river.
"A hobo was busily engaged this
morning washing out his whole ward
robe in the warm water which flows
from the pumping station down by
the river and spreading it out on the
ground to dry. There certainly is
nothing hobo cannot turn his hand
to if only he has to.
Colonial theater beautiful, where
you see everything first. The latest
biograph tonight
BY taking out her nomination
papers, Miss Kate Weirsmith, a popu-
lar teacher in the high school of OF
tumwa, has taken steps to fill the
vacancy on the Republican ticket for
county superintendent of schools.
The woman is regarded as highly
capable and is conceded a chance in
her county for the position
Only fair sized house saw the
play "The Flower of the Ranch at the
Grand last evening. The weather
probably had much to do with many
staying away. The chorus numbers
were not up to the standard an dthe
solo parts were rather weak. Aside
from that the comedy drama and
musical Jingle combined was true to
western style and pleased moderate
way.
A great biograph sermon. "The
Way of the World Colonial theater
beautiful tonight.
The steamer Dubuque of the Dia-
mond 10 line will depart from ST.
Louis this evening arriving here to-
morrow on her way to Burlington with
a good trip trip reported The st inner
Black Hawk came in last night and
left this morning at $50 for her usual
trip to Burlington. The steamer keo-
kuk arrived here last evening and left
this morning at $50 for Quincy.
Governor B. F. Carroll. Senator
A. B. Cummins and Auditor of State
John L. Bleakly have been invited to
give short talks on banking before
the convention OF the Iowa State
Bankers association which will be
held in Des Moines this year on May
lG and II. Addresses by these promi-
nent men will complete a program of
speeches by large number of we'll
known financiers and statesmen Hon
Leslie NJ. Shaw. Former State Dairy
Commissioner H. r. Wright, and State
Bank Commissioner John Swanger of
Missouri have accepted invitations to
address the convention.
An Abba, Iowa, news dispatch
says: Three weeks ago the Adams
Express Office at this place was rob-
bed of $4,000 and all the efforts put
forth by the company and the Pink
erton agency failed to give any clue
TO the robbery. A weli-known young
continued shadowing failed to deyel-
OPP anything except that they were Oh
the wrong trail. A week or two after
the robbery the authorities put an ex-
pert to work on the books and he
discovered that the agent, Gilbert Mel
son, was short in his accounts 5000,
and he was arrested. 1t is under
stood Nelson's relatives have raised
the necessary amount to square his
shortage but the company have not
accepted, as yet, and probably will
not until some clue to the $4,000 rob-
berry is obtained.
"A Carthage News dispatch says:
The news of the arrest of DR.. Mary
Guthrie, of this city for dynamiting
the home OF Jesse A. Quick, a
wealthy farmer living near Prairie
City. Iowa, came as great sensation
in this place. DR.. Walker has been
known here as DR.. Ida M. Guthrie.
She has had room in the home of
O. v. Ward for about year. Dur
ing that time she has practiced este
opathy among the poorer classes, and
has not been very well known gener-
ally. She graduated from the Welmar
college at Nevada, Mo-, in which in
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