The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-16
CITY NEWS.

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There are only six more buying
days LETT before Christmas The
nightly exhortations OF the newspa-
pers in the matter Of telling citizens
to shop early did world Of good,
say those merchant In stores whose
places of business In years hereto
store were crowded the last two or
three days to the bursting point.
Megchelsen's are showing good
variety Of Christmas goods in their en-
tire line. See them.
John Kenney. an employee at the
Huiskamp shoe factory, is receiving
medical attention for q wound on his
right hand that originated from
bruise.
The choicest chickens at Joe
Haubert's, 709 Main. Both phones.
For week now, Keokuk's young
men and women who are away at
school the country over. will com
mence arriving home for the holidays.
! With the addition OF these young
4 people, the Christmas and New Year
season should be brihtened much,
as they will bring with their coming
q list of enjoyable social events and
freshness that only they know how
to bring.
Call up Haubert's meat market
for roast of beef, pork, veal or NUT
ton for Sunday dinner. Both phones.
Special prices on candy to Sunday
School committees at Schouten's.
Monday, following Christmas and
Monday following New Years will
! be the days observed this year for
festivals of all kinds In Keokuk and
the same cusom will prevail else
where. On account OF the two holidays
coming on the Sabbath there will be
no general celebrations on these
days.
Autoist blankets at Sherwood's.
In the majority Of the schools OF
Illinois there will be no Christmas
programs or entertainments OF any
kind The supreme court has ruled
that religious exercises or entertain
ments which border on religious days
] or topics shall not be conducted in the
4 schools. Santa Claus may be intro
i duced in the schools, but there can be
no reference to st. Nicholas, who is a
religious character. Many of the
teachers say that Christmas without
/ Christ is not Christmas at ALL and
they will make no attempt to ar
range Christmas entertainments.
/ Factory prices on Christmas sta
tionery at Collier Stationery Co.
Santa Claus has something for
all the children tomorrow at Jno.
Il DeYong's, IS South Fourth.
d The following clipping from the
4 Fairfield Ledger of recent date will
recall to the minds OF some OF the
Il older citizens, Hawkins Taylor, ST..
1 at one time mayor of Keokuk and a
prominent citizen OF the early days:
4 G. ID. McGaw has received announce
ment of the death of his son-in-law,
pneumonia, at his home in Washing.
ton, D. c., the Sth inst. Mr. Taylor
was private secretary for United
States Senator James f. Wilson and
was well known in this city. He was
married here November %, 1883, and
was about forty-four years old. He
was secretary to Senator Oliver OF
Pennsylvania at the time of his death.
Your boy will be pleased with a
Studebaker Junior wagon or a sad
die for Christmas. Buy it at Sher-
woods.
"A general alarm was turned in
to the fire station this morning at
3:45 o'clock and with all possible
haste the department went to the Ho-
tel Keokuk where the alarm bell
rang from A search OF the big hos
te1ery was made from top to bottom
but no sign of fire could be seen.
The calling out of the fire apparatus
occasioned quite bad scare and a
bad fire would have been unwelcome
at that time of night. The only way
the hotel people and Chief Anderson
of the fire department could account
for the alarm bell ringing as it did
would have been cross in the wires
some place or mouse may have
chewed wires in two making con.
, nection with the fire alarm.
Practical gifts in Ewers- Mccarthy
Co.'S boys department.
These moonlight nights seem to
have been made especially for those
who enjoy skating. Although rough
in some places, there are many
smooth ice courts on the canal
which is frozen over solidly. The
ominous cracking OF the ice now
and then does not signify that the
CONCEALED mass is going through,
and even if it did. the water beneath
Is not deep enough to drown three
year old In some places the sedi-
: ment and small crests of earth that
form the bottom OF the canal are
sticking up through the Ice, the canal
having frozen over before the lock
engineers could turn the water in
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