The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-14
CITY NEWS
City maps at Westcott's.

-Clty maps at WeStcotts.
Finnan haddie at Immegarts'.
Smoke Moeller's Silver Ash cigar.
See Seligs latest-"A Tale of the
Backwoods" at Majestic tonight
Basketball tonigl, at ""-S:15. K
H. S. VS.. Mt. Pleasant
-Ewers, Mccarthy Co. include all
suits and overcoats in their 20 per
cent reduction sale.
Puckechetuck lodge No. 43 meets
every Friday evening at 600 o'clock.
w E. Rokey, N. G.; George W. Imme
gar, secretary Initiation
The ice in the river has broken
down near Alton, H., and towns below
that place expecting much damage
from the rush of the great mass which
will bear down on boats and other
river property.
The following pupils Of the first
room, Terrence school, have neither
been tardy nor absent during the past
term Walter Kirchner, Ray Hops.
Ray Nelson, Carroll Nelson, Arthur
Bun ton and Marie Peterson.
| "A first run Pathe picture-Dodge'
tonight.
Rev. R. C. McIlwain today
brought suit in the district court to
| foreclose a mortgage on part of lot
10, block 205, given as security by
Louise Clark and Rosa Clark, on a
note of $115.
If you like western pictures, see
4 A Tale of the Backwoods, at the Ma
Ejestic tonight.
An item in last evenings Gate
City told of the burning down of the
Boston Y M. C. A. building yesterday.
Keokuk people were interested in this
little item from the fact that e. w.
Pierce, former secretary of the asso-
citation here, is now the religious sec
rotary of the Boston association. His
many friends here are wondering how
he behaved while the flames were
licking up his Office.
The Daily Times of Erie, Pa, on
| Wednesday of this week contained an
article more than column in length
on the Keokuk water power project,
declaring the proposition to be the
engineering sensation of the present
century. The greater majority of the
article is clipped from the extra edi-
4 ton of The Gate City of Saturday
noon, which contained all of the data
and information about the project and
which is being reprinted and recon
structed by the newspapers all over
the country
DIR. J. B. Modest, physical
director of the Y. M. c. A. of
Sioux City. has been elected
counsel of the Central section of the
Athletic league of Iowa, the position
now held by ~ A. King of this city
The water works company is hav-
ing much trouble at present with the
repairing of water mains and private
supply pipes which have been snap
ping into beneath the ground, on &C
count of the cold snap. This is trou
BILE which occurs each winter and is
hard one to remedy.
Thompson" the Egyptian will ad
dress the mems meeting at the Y M
G. A. Sunday afternoon and he viii
take for his subject Life" He is
now conducting a series of evangelis
tice meetings in the city but will de
vote part of his Sunday to the serv
ices of the Y NJ C. A. He brings
with him very talented singer, Miss
Elsie Roth of Stanford, Ill. A goot
meeting is assured and all men are in
, vited. On Sunday, January %, the
: new Y. NJ. c. A. state secretary O
Iowa, Mr. w. M. Parsons, of Des
. Moines, will be the speaker and OF
!, January 80, something out of the or
binary is in store for that day. Mr.
} Hufstader, general secretary, is plan
ming four days campaign preceding
J the Sunday afternoon services ant
further announcement will be made
through the press.