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

Your shoes will be half soled
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 ]. B. Van
Pappelendam the west 1s Of lot 3,
block 3S, Kilbourne addition. !.
Regular meeting of ruckechetuck
encampment No. z. l. o. o. F., at Odd
Fellows hail at 5 o'clock tonight. Wis
ng brethren fraternRlly invited to
4 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
laSl Liz III, luC StSOSl uiSS iHShO nv
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. o.
W.. meets every Thursday night at
7:3O o'clock at hall over Keokuk Saw
ings bank corner Fifth and Main
streets. Visiting brethren cordially
invited. C. w. Trott. NJ. W.. Ed. W.
Moore. Recorder.
F. NJ 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
yermillion at Keosauqua yesterday.
He left on the II o'clock train with
Sheriff Iamison 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-
nv Co, was in the city yesterday. lie
states his company Is doing 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 a dav to Centerville and three
a day to Abba. This company has on
hand the building of a s640 600 leyee
at Kansas City this season.
Government officials are now at
Muscatine and for the past week have
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 chance to work and obtain
data ct such a 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 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 prac'
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. 324o 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
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 62s. for DELINQUENT taxes 4
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 lust and equitable in the premises
and as to equity belongs