The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-18
CITY NEWS.
We sell harness, Sherwood.


-Dodges. the place where they al
-Nettte NJ. COPYRIGHT has secured
q title TO lot 5. block /, Kings add,
ton.
"A force of engineers are taking q
cross section and elevation OF the
lower railway yards.
Regular meeting OF Hermann
lodge. No, lie, L o. o. f. tonight at
T:30 o'clock Visiting brethren cordial
ly invited.
in the public school league yester-
day afternoon the ST Mays team
defeated the Washington team by 8
score of four to three. The last game
of the schedule viii be played this
afternoon.
&C. NJ. Hull and sons have leased
the vacant property on the north side
Of Main street between Seventh and
Eighth and have planned 10 erect an
airdome for the coming summers
vaudeville season.
To be sold at a bargain. May IS,
1sl0-1 Case 10 MP. engine, Rumley
and Steven IL MP. engine, Gaar-
Scott separator. 3333x5s, run only So
days. and Parson Hawkeye feeder
/ run only 10 DAYS John Thereof, Don
nelson. Iowa.
/ The Y. W. C. A. have established
/ g travellers aid at the Union depot
I The association will have some mem
4 Der Of the force al the depot to meet
all trains and serve as bureau OF
( information and will look after all
cases where they can be Of any as
sistance
AT 2::45 this morning there was a
narrow band of white light, starting
| from the horizon at east-northeast,
running due south, half wav across
the sky. where it curved TO the east
and ended In two bright colored
/ clouds. The light had faded by $40
I a. m
j. C. McManus was awarded the
/ contract on mile and half OF
cement work in Elvaston- The work
4 will be started at once and will call
3 for an expenditure of about $4,000,
nearly all OF which will go to the
local dealers. McManus' bid was one
half of a cent below the next bidder.
i The Illinois state meeting OF the
/ W. C. T. is to be held at Quincy
/ Thursday. FRIDAY and Saturday OF this
week. About four hundred delegates
are expected besides large numbers OF
/ visitors and travelling men from other
4 states. Quite number of the local
association expect to attend the ses-
sions.
Henry A. FIELD. of Grinnell. Iowa,
/ is in the city attending the convention
/ of Congregatioal churches of Iowa. He,
years ago. resided IN Hamilton, was
born in Denmark, Lee county. and has
an acquaintance with the older i
/ dents of Lee and Hancock county. Mr..
I Field is press representative for a
/ number Of Iowa papers
DIR. and Mrs. D. P Breed of Grin
+ nell. are attending the convention.
j The doctor is field agent for the Grin
Z nell college. For number of years
he was pastor of the First Congrega,
tional church at Creston. He is one
of the ablest men in the brotherhood.
deeply interested in psychological
research and alive to social conditions
Mrs. Breed is president o. the Iowa
Woman's Home Missionary Union and
very active IN church work.
Mr.. Moscrip. editorial writer on
Times epublican, Marshalltown, is in
the city attending the sessions of the
Congregational convention as dele
gate from the Marshalltown church.
Mr. Moscrip is one of the oldest and
best Informed newspaper men in the
state. a versatile and entertaining
writer and a fine gentleman. He in
tends TO visit Warden Sanders at Fort
Madison on his way home and will
take a look at the big dam before
leaving Keotzuk
Armed with unsigned civil ser
vice papers and a 32-ci- ibre revolver,
man. whose name is unknown, went
to the middle lock yesterday afternoon
and threw scare into government
employees there by declaring that he
had come 10 take charge. He appear
ed deraaged and his strange actions
attracted no little attention. After be-
ing convinced that he could not go to
work he left. saving that he would go
10 the first lock asd take command
there He failed to show up at the
first lock and has not been heard of
since.
Residents of Brown and Adams
counties, Illinois, near Clayton. yes.
terday paid honor to the oldest in
habitant in that section OF Illinois,
Elijah Hunsaker. 2 resident of the
former county He celebrated his one
hundredth birthday His general
health is good. ard aside from the fact
that he is blin7 sfr. Hnnsaker suffers
few If any of the infirmities of old rge.
The celebration yesterday was in the
nature Of 2 general picnic, the whole
COUNTRYSIDE being present. the crowd