The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
CITY NEWS.
Real concrete. j. C. Mcsfanus.
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woods and save money. 7o3 Main.
Ben Johnson was sentenced to
fifteen days In jail this morning for
disturbing the peace and quiet of the
vicinity of the union depot. johnson
was the only man ia the court room
for misdemeanor this morning.
Chas. A. Halbeck, unfortunately
turned on his ankle while walking
along near Fifth and Main street this
morning and sprained the lower mem
Der so badly that 1t was impossible
for him TO walk. He was take to
hfs home, Af3 Morgan street, in an
auto and the injury looked after.
An Ottumwa dispatch says: Fifty
one years ago today, the first passen-
ger train pulled into Ottumwa and the
event was the occasion of great re-
joicing. On August Is. 1859. a pas
senger train on the Burlington &
Missouri River road, now known as
the Burlington route. arrived in the
city. Some two or three months lat
er another line entered the city, it
being the Keokuk, Fort Des Moines
& Minnesota road, which is now
known as the Rock Island.
Saturday night about half past
eleven, a drunk wandered into a
home on South Sixth street, near Ex-
change and walking through the I'M
locked door, proceeded upstairs One
OF the lady members of the family
hearing the intruder thought it was
her husband and called his name.
The polluted fellow answered her
and then staggered back down the
stairs and began beating loud Ia
too on the door panel next door
which could be audibly heard for half
mile After much lingering around
and frightening those who heard
him, the loafer disappeared down an
alley
Funeral services for Robert w,
little FIVE months old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert W. King, were conducted
Sunday afternoon at the residence of
Chas. Haubert, 304 Exchange street
The body of the little boy arrived here
on Saturday from the home in Kib-
ling. MINI. accompanied by the pa
rents. The child was born In this
i city but recently Mr.. and Mrs King
had been making their residence in
Minnesota. Mrs. King was formerly
Miss Bertha Haubert of this city. The
infant child passed away last Friday
The following little girls assisted as
body bearers yesterday, interment be
i ing made in Oakland cemetery: Kath
crime, Madeline and Elizabeth Haub
| ert and Lola Trexall.
/ Mrs. Catherine Lewis. the Oldest
| woman in Iowa, is preparing to OBJ
/ serve her 101st birthday Tuesday al
| the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ad
| rian Green. at Middletown, Des Moines
county. Mrs. Lewis health is falling
and she will not be able to be abou
| but will have the members of he
family at her bedside. Up to las
/ year this aged woman had always hat
| excellent health. She has led al
active life, and less than fifteer
months ago sewed quilt in order tt
have something to do. After reaching
the century mark Mrs. Lewis began tt
/ grow feeble Neighbors and friends
will make the coming event happ,
one for this pioneer woman of Iowa.
DO not kill the lad5 beetles, fol
! the whole class of them do nothing
else but work for your advantage
Boys call them carriage bugs and sci
dom know their importance in tht
orchard. Daddy longlegs is anothel
of our friends, which we should leav,
to his beneficent work of destroying
scale and other insects. Bad name al
the house flies carry, the mosquit'
has a worse, and it is the fashion
just now to imagine that we hav'
solved all our hygenic difficulties b
publishing recipes for killing thes
pests. Yet it is doubtful If the worl'
could be inhabited long by human be
ings without these insects to trans
form decay into living matter. Thei
unaccountable millions are busy a
this service: their internal thousand
have degenerated into bloodsucker
and poison carriers. should hardl,
wish to cali them allies, but tn,
good done by them must not be. for
gotten. Our work is to control condi
lions so that they shall not becom'
pests. e. P. Powell in Septembe
Outing.
B "A spirited young team of Johl
Ketterer, the milk man, becam
/ frightened yesterday morning whel
the neck yoke slipped from the tongu
when the team and milk van reachet
the corner OF Thirteenth and Elk
change streets and the animals tor
down Thirteenth to Main and to tn
alley between Main and Blondeau
There the driver, a young lad o
twelve years. turned them into tn,
alley and succeeded in driving then
into post where the horses wer'
brought back on their launches ant
the runaway stopped Thirty-fve gal
Ions Of milk were spilled along Thir
teenth greet and in the alley, puddlei
Of the creamy liquid giving evidenc'
Of the fast drive over the rough, hill.
road The boy driver stayed camel,