The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-18
CITY NEWS.


at Mrs. E. Hanson's 1904 Exchange
ST. Friday afternoon and evening 1uc.
"A marriage license was issued
Late yesterday afternoon to Otis
Taylor, aged "a, and Eliza Lu-
ella Beghtol aged is, both of Keo-
kuk.
Regular meeting of Puckecaetuck
encampment No. Z. l. O. o. F.. at Odd
Fellows hail at o'clock tonight Wis
ng brethren fraternally invited to
attend.
Regular meeting Of Keokuk Aerie,
No. 6S3. F. o. e. tonight at Eagles
Hall, 9Th. and Main at 8 O'Clock, visit
ing brothers always welcome. Chas.
A. Noakes, Secretary.
We now have on display early
fall pattern hats, sailors, ready to
wear and untrimmed hats. Hats and
tams for children. Inspection invited.
The G. & c. millinery Co.
-KeokuE lodge. No. 256. A. Q. o.
W.. meets every Thursday night at
1880 o'clock at hall over Keokuk Saw
1 ings bank corner Fifth and Main
1 streets. Visiting brethren cordially
invited. c. w Trott, NJ. W.. Ed. w.
/ Moore. Recorder
Sherwood repairs harness and
does it right. 703 Main.
j. j. Walker and others have
conveyed to J. E. Lively all the land
lying west of the highway running
1 through some of the west ten acres
4 of lot and the west % 1-3 acres OF
lot Z of the northeast 1-2 of section
20, township 65, north of range s.
west.
For the first time in many years
the coal output Of Iowa will fall off
according to the forthcoming biennial
\ report of the state mine commission.
/ Because of the two months strike
4 mage of coal mined in Iowa will fall
off about quarter of million tons.
DR.. George M. Chapel, director
of the Iowa weather and crop ser
vice bureau, has computed the def
cheney of rain this year as compar
ed with last year. The rain we didn't
get since January /, he says, if all as
sembled, would make a lake twenty
five feet deep, eight miles wide and
200 miles long.
Nearly 1000 corporations in Iowa
have SO far failed to send their an
nual fee of 81 to the secretary OF
state. They will soon receive sec.
ond notice. On Setember / the fee car.
ries penalty Of 81, making total
of So; on October it carries pen
atty of 81, making 81 in all, and 50
keeps on rising at a degree that en-
courages prompt payment.
i 1t will be gratifying news to
Iowa farmers that Iowa bankers re
port the banks of this state will
have money enough to move the fall
crops without sending a piteous ap
peal to the east for assistance. 1t Ii
8 reported from North Dakota, where
there will prorably be less than one
half crop that prosperity there is Of
such an extent that none will suffer
-Bugg:es selling cheap at Sher
woods.
DIR. G. e. Ruth writes to The
Gate City from st. James. Mich.
that he expects to be in Keokuk fol
at least five weeks, beginning witt
the middle of September and that ht
has not decided to locate in st. Louis
He has promised to deliver a specia
course of lectures on surgery in ONE
OF the medical colleges there bur
does not expect the series to occup,
more than weeks time.
Fifty doctors attended the spe
, cial meeting of the state board O
health in Des Moines yesterday, t
listen to the report of DR.. Frost o
the government service, who ha
been investigating the epidemic 0
infantile paralysis at Mason City
He says the worst is over in Masol
City, but that cases may be expected
: in these parts until cooler weather
He admits that he can not under
stand the cause of the disease o.
recommend a treatment He does
however, urge the most importan
sanitary methods.
Quincy Journal: DIR. M. Rewens
Morse left Keokuk this morning a
u I:35 for Ithaca, n Y, accompanied
by her mother There she will sta,
until the first of September and viii
make her home at Cape Cod during ;
greater part of the time between
now and the first of the month
About Sept LIST DR.. Morse goes tt
Kenosha, Wis, to take up her worl
there until the first of next year. Ii
January 1911, she will go to New
York to give a series of lectures be
fore literary society. The perma
nent address of Rev. Morse will be
512 Edgewood Place, Ithaca, N. Y.
Funeral services were conducted
yesterday afternoon at two O'CLOCK
lin the Zion church two and a hal
miles west of the city for the late
Mrs. Lottie Allen Hamill who passed
away at her home near this city, las
Monday night at 10 o'clock after al
illness of several months with tuber
culosis. Mrs. Hamill was twenty-five
years old and was born in Wisconsin
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