The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-18
CITY NEWS

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Order a nice roast of Markley.
Buy that harness Of Sherwood
and save dollars.
ANY suit OF overcoat N our store
LIS off. Ewers- Mccarthy Co.
Final reports Of executors of the
estate of Emily E. Moore was filed
today in the district court.
Get shoe wise, try a pair of our
shoes, you get style, comfort and
long wear, at bargain prices. Star
Shoe Store.
Puckechetuck lodge, No 43, meets
every Friday evening at o'clock. w.
E. Rokey. N. G.; George w. Immegart.
secretary. Initiation.
Charging desertion, Mable A.
league has brought suit for divorce
against w. Ross league They were
married on July IL, 1907. She asks
the restoration Of her mainden name
of Mable A. Hughes.
ALI day Saturday we will give
away free with each 25-cent can Rex
all Pearl Tooth Powder one 10-cent
cake Renaissance Medicated Toilet
soap. McGrath Bros. Drug Co., corner
Fifth and Main.
Twenty-Five feet on Johnson street
in rear of the Rand flats, between
Third and Fourth, sold today to Fanny
B. Praeger The former owners were
James w. Bullock and George Bullock.
The consideration was not stated in
the deed.
The family reunion Of the mem
bers of Morning Star lodge, No. 5.
Knights of Pythias, and their families
will be held this evening in the lodge
and club rooms and promises to be
an enjoyable affair for the many who
will attend
Virginia A. Boswell obtained a
deed today to lots and A, block IA,
Hawkeye addition. Ada p Boswell
obtained deed to lots / and 2, block
Ia, same addition, the consideration iii
each case being $3.50. Both parties are
of Moberly, Mo.
M. V. Cannon, the well l-aown
Davenport attorney who is quite well
acquainted in Keokuk, has been
bound over to the grand jury. Mr..
Cannon is charged with fraud in the
| executorship of an estate. When time
came for the preliminary he did not
appear in court at all, but through his
attorney waived preliminary examina-
ton. Els bond was fixed at $4,000.
There will be but one indoor base
ball game at the Y. M. G. A. gymna-
SUM this evening. 1t will be between
the st. Johns and Presbyterian teams
and will start at o'clock The big
game slated between the Congrega-
tioaals and Methodists has been post
poned until next Wednesday, owing
to the absence from the city of several
Methodist players.
Harrington News Republican:
Dan Hull, an aged citizen of Clark
county, Mo-, was taken to Graham hos
| pital at Keokuk for an operation Tues
day. Mr.. Hull has gangreen and it
will be necessary to amputate one oil
| his lower limbs. Dr. Neff was in Keo
kuk Tuesday and Wednesday, assist
1 ing in the operation. Mr. Hull is eigh.
/ ty-threa years old and is a Mexican
war sran. He is probably the only
living veteran of the Mexican war in
these parts anywhere. 1t is hoped that
4 his life nnav be spared for time by
the opera Il.
Quincy Herald: Henry Rees. the
contractor, has received the good news
| that the SUPP enc court of Iowa. in
session at De5 Moines, has handed
down q favorable decision in the case
| in which he sued Keokuk for money
| due him on paving tract In that
city The case has been pending
since 1905 and HIS in the intervening
| years run the gamut of the courts,
from those purely local to the highest
in the commonwealth. The supreme
court decision is in favor of Mr.. Rees
and means that Keokuk will have TO
pay the $4,000 due on the contract
with interest at the rate of 6 per cent
the latter item amounting to $500. Mr.
/ Ree3 has been represented in the
litigation growing out of the repudia-
| ton of the contract by a Keokuk at
torney and by Attorneys Seerley and
/ Clark of Burlington, and he is well
/ pleased with the work they have done
In following the suit from court to
court and camping on its trail until
the final decision was received in
their favor and the favor of their
| client