The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-01
CITY NEWS.

your SnOeS Will De nalI SOleu
right if taken to Karle.
For team harness we have them
at right prices. Sherwood.
Regular meeting Of Keokuk
lodge No. LOG B. P. o. E., tonight at
Elks' hall, Sixth and Main street.
Visiting Elks invited
In consideration of $500 G. L.
Laws has transferred to j. B. Van
Pappelendam the west " of lot 3,
block So, Kilbourne addition. i
Regular meeting of fuckechetuck
encampment No. Z. l. O. o. F., at Odd
Fellows hail at s o'clock tonight. Wis
I. ng brethren fraternally invited to
attend
A special preparatory service in
advance of the communion will be held
in Westminster Presbyterian church
tomorrow evening, beginning at 1880,
instead of 500 o'clock, as has been
| the hour for evening services since
May.
Owing to an accident at the plant
| last night, the street arcs were not
! turned on until about IL o'clock and
| the streets were as dark as a box of
shoe polish. The sky was cloudy and
it was almost impossible to see six
inches ahead
| -Keokuk lodge No. 256. A. O. q.
| W., meets every Thursday night at
1870 o'clock at hall over Keokuk Saw
| ings bank corner Fifth and Main
streets. Visiting brethren cordially
invited. G. w. Trott. M. w. Ed. W.
Moore. Recorder.
F. M. Lee, ex-county recorder OF
/ Van Buren, county, who was on trial
/ for wife desertion, was sentenced to
one year in the penitentiary by Judge
4 Vermillion at Keosauqua, yesterday.
| He left on the IL o'clock train with
Sheriff Jamison for the Fort Madison
| penitentiary. Lees case was sensa-
! tional and attracted considerable at
| tention. He was arrested in Chicago
last spring. He deserted his wife
about three years ago.
Burlington Gazette: G. E. Max
well. manager of the Burlington Quar-
ry Co., was in the city yesterday. lie
states his company is doing a rushing
| business this season They have ship
| ped in about fifty car loads of crush
| ed stone for the new hotel and about
twenty-five more will be required. The
company is shipping about four car
| loads day to Centerville and three
a day to Abba. This company has on
hand the building of a s64O 600 levee
at Kansas City this season.
Government officials are now at
been working in front of the city get
ting the velocity of the river during
this exceedingly low stage of water.
The steamer Gardie Eastman is assist |
ing in the work, placing bouys and
current meters in the channel and
along the shore The officials have
never had a chance to work and obtain
data at such low stage of water and
the records which will be compiled
will be of great value to the naviga-
tors of the upper Mississippi river
both now and in the future.
Leon F. Rock, the new instructor
of mathematics in the high school and /
coach of athletics, arrived in the city
YESTERDAY He is in Donnellson today |
looking after matters in connection
with his certificate Mr.. Rock is
married and will make Keokuk his
home He is q graduate of the Michi- |
gan State Teachers College. One
part of the course of that institution
is instruction on athletics with the
view point of coaching. Mr.. Rock has
had this course together with pracl
tical experience in foot ball, baseball.
basket ball, and indoor athletics. He
will start with the high school foot
ball team next Tuesday afternoon.
Fort Madison Democrat: Case
No. 3240 Injunction, Vallie Beck
versus William Reimbold, has been
set for trial at the district court for
next Tuesday In the original petit |
ton the plaintiff prays the court for i
a temporary writ of Injunction re-
straining the defendant as county
treasurer from advertising for sale
or selling the PLAINTIFFS lots. Nos.
626, 627 and G2S, for delinquent taxes.
and from attempting in any manner
to force the collection of any alleged
and ATTEMPTED special assessment by
the city of Fort Madison against the
lots for the improvement of the street
on which the lots abut; that on the
final hearing the alleged and attempt
ed special assessment may be decreed
cancelled; that the injunction be per-
petual and that the plaintiff may have
such other and further relief as may
be Just and equitable in the premises
and as to equity belongs.