The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-17
CITY NEWS


night" Dodges
Ribbon sale at Central Monday to
Wednesday 25c. yd see window
The final full dress rehearsal for
the spectacular production of the Toy
Shop will occur Monday evening at
600 o'clock Everyone must be pres
ent. Parents and friends who have to
escort children home will please call
for them at o'clock or directly after
this hour Only performers will be
admitted to the house at this final
dress rehearsal.
On next Tuesday Wiley B. Ray
will enter upon his sixey-eIgntn year.
of almost continual residence in Keo-
kuk, record which few citizens of
the city possess at the present time.
He came here from Knoxville, Tenn,
on April 10, 1913. With his fathers
family he left that city in a flat boat
They floated down on the Ohio river
at Paducah. KY, to Cairo by means
of the flat boat. From Cairo to Keo
knk they came by Steamboat Mr..
Ray was then only ten years old and
his father settled in the upper part of
the county on farm near Pennington
Quincy Herald: Sam Baldwin
has letter from his brother. Capt.
1 Tom S. Baldwin. today, bringing the
news that the Forbes BALBOA son
which the captain has beens working
! is SO near completion that it is pos
! sible to announce that it will be here
! either in the first or second week of
1 May to be given trial trips. Capt
Baldwin also sends word that there
will be other trial flights the latter
i part of May and while he does not
say so the inference is that there will
be two balloons here the latter part
of the month.
Pleading guilty to selling cigar
cites contrary to the state law of
Iowa, e. Summerland manager of the
/ United Cigar Stores Co., OF Burling-
/ ton, was fined $25 and costs The
court ordered the stock of cigarettes
! confiscated when the store was
searched, to be destroyed publicly,
1 The matter of selling cigarettes con
I trary to law will cost the United CT
1 gar Stores Co, an additional fee of
$500. The law provides that the squire
4 must make transcript of the case
/ to the county treasurer, who must as
/ sess the above fee against the proper
| ty There is a chance that the assess
ment of this additional fee of $500 Is
not legal, and the United Cigar
! Stores Co has an excellent opportui-
4 ty of testing the validity of it if they
! SO care to do.
Both performances, the matinee
and evening presentation of THE Top
4 O. TIL World We're finely attended
yesterday afternoon and last evening
1 The production which is a merry
jingle with plenty of spicy farce from
start to finish was something almost
entirely new to Keokuk people as it
was the first show of its kind 20 ap-
pear behind the local footlights at
the Grand. Two crack comedians,
Bailey and Austin reputed to be
among the best in their line on the
I "A IUeTlCdu stage COudy were The DTIuCl-
| pal humor merchants. The company
| though weak on choruses was good
! and the Individual vocal numbers
were appreciated The entire show
takes one away from me deep set
drama and keeps the mirth bubble
I floating during the presentation.
! The steamer Keokuk made her
/ last tri-weekly trip last night. and
Monday morning will start in the
! Keokuk Quincy daily trade. which SER
j vice will be much more appreciated
! by local and intermediate point ship
pers. On next Tuesday the steamer
Black Hawk will make its first daily
/ trip between this city and Burlington.
The Columbia will arrive in Burling-
| ton on that date to take the place Of
the Black Hawk which has been run
ming to Davenport. The Black Hawk
after next Tuesday will start making
daily trips between this city and
/ Burlington.