The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23
CITY NEWS.

Sherwood will buy your old bug
gies.
There will be no issue of The
Gate City tomorrow. Thanksgiving.
Home made pies fresh daily at
Home Restaurant, s1o Main street.
Christmas shopping will be on
with increased earnestness after
/ Thanksgiving day
Banks, business houses generally
and saloons will be closed tomorrow,
in observance of Thanksgiving.
M. w. A. dance Thanksgiving
eve, Wednesday, Nov. %. Agnes or.
chestra. ALI rights reserved.
Store your buggies at Sherwoods'
--Keokuk will have many things to
be thankful for tomorrow and one
year from today Will show great
many more.
Regular meeting o; Hermann
lodge. No. 116, l. o. o. F.. tonight at
1880 o'clock. Visiting brethren cordial
ly invited
-Keokuk Camp NJ. w. A. No. 6:2
will hold its regular meeting tonight
at Woodman hall All members are
requested to se present.
Mrs. Cortes Maxwell, 71S High
street, began her primary music class
for piano, on November l. Graded
pupils two weeks later.
A number of the progressive me-
chants of the city have made special
Thanksgiving day show window dis
plays, appropriate to the day and at
tractive to the eye.
The public school children are
free now until Monday morning, the
usual Thanksgiving vacation having
sions this afternoon.
As soon as the Thanksgiving day
dishes have been washed and put
away, the next thought of the house
wife should be to get the Christi
shopping started early and finished
soon.
The poor and needy OF Keokuk
will not be forgotten tomorrow. A
number of charitable organizations ex-
pect to help out many family with
a big Thanksgiving day dinner and no
one should go to bed hungry tomorrow
night
Lionel Lawrence, who played the
part of General Varney" in THE
Golden Girl" which appeared here on
Saturday, is the man who on the
26th Cay of June, four years ago.
took the revolver from the hands OF
Harry K. Thaw the night he shot
and killed Stanford White, on the
roof of Madison Square Garden in
New York City.
The Union Thanksgiving service
will be held tomorrow, Thursday, at
1920 a. IN. in the First Presbyterian
church. r. w. Lilley will read the
scripture, G. c. Williams will lead IN
prayer, ]. F. Sanders will read the
Thanksgiving proclamation. Rev. j..
C. Mccain will preach the sermon.
Rev H. B. Foster will pronounce
benediction.
n. c. MCGEE of Hannibal. brake
man on the "K' line of the G. B. &
@. is in the hospital at Fort Madison
with broken nose, severe cuts on
| the face and other bruises and gashes,
| the result of an accident at Montrose
late Monday evening. MCGEE was com.
| ing into Fort Madison on the evening
freight and the train was switched to
/ the track which runs close to the
ntrose depot. MCGEE was standing
on one of the cars and was caught by
/ the projecting roof of the depot and
thrown to the platform with such
force that those who went to his as
sistance thought the unfortunate man
was killed He was brought on to
/ Fort Madison and taken to the hospi.
tai where medical attention was Civ
| en- at once. No indications of any in.
ternal injuries have yet appeared and
unless further complications arise the
man will be able to be out again in
few days.
-Nauyoo independent: Chief Engi-
neer cooper was in Keokuk the past
week and he talked freely concerning
4 the water power project and stated
that he had options which would soon
be taken up, that construction of the
plant will proceed and that he is COM
ing to Keokuk to live after Jan. 1,
1911. He incidentally remarked that
his company wanted factories to grow
up in Keokuk, Hamilton, Montrose,
Nauvoo and other towns in this vicin.
ity that they will have power to war
rant new factories all around us, and
especially in the slack water pool
above the dam and from one end of
/ the pool to the other. Do you hear ?
Above the pool. That includes Maui
VOC and why shouldn't our town pro.
+ gress when 1t has the finest location
in Uncle Sans kingdom? There is no
\ reason why our city should not enjoy
the fruits of this long expected enter
prise as well as Keokuk and Hamil.
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