The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-12
CITY NEWS.
aness-Buy OF Sherwood.

Mushroom catsup at Immegart's.
High class vaudeville and motion
pictures. Colonial, theatre beautiful,
tonight.
-Benjamin's big city show: featur-
ing Lorcee, the great spectacular dane
er-the Owls carnival.
M S. Ackles is having new boat
house built to house the launch Keo-
sauqua which he recently purchased.
Change of picture daily; change
OF vaudeville acts Mondays and
Thursdays. Colonial. theatre beautiful.
The foundation of the new resi-
dence OF A. Lofquist, located at I'LL
piondeau. has been completed and
work on the house will be pushed to
completion.
For plumbing and tin work news,
| 1t will pay you to read the ad in The
Gate City OF Elite & PRAISE, the relia-
BILE plumbers. All work intrusted to
them will be done with neatness and
dispatch.
A Rock Island paper says: An
informal dinner will be given to Maj.
Charles Keller of Rock Island by the
Davenport Commercial club, on Thurs
day evening of this week at Z p. m.
The dinner will be given at the Com
mercial club. Major Keller is the sue
cessor to Maj. C. S. Richie, as head of
the United States engineers office in
Rock Island, Major Richie having been
transferred to Detroit. The event
win be given to give the business
men of the city an opportunity to
become acquainted with Major KEEL
Ter.
The management of the Young
Buffalo Wild West Shows, which ex-
hibits in Keokuk tomorrow, desire to
state that prior to the parade and
from the moment Of early arrival of
the special train bearing this great
show until its departure in the night
every consideration will be shown the
public. The populace will receive an
early morning welcome at the cross
way where the train is unloaded and
may view the interesting operation
without fear Of unpleasant experience.
The train superintendent and through
him his subordinates. have been in.
structed to be polite and courteous at
all times and in no possible maner to
offend the most sensitive either by
word or action. On the show grounds
the same rule is rigidly enforced in all
departments, whether large or small.
Ladies without escort and children I'M
attended are assured respectful consid-
GRAFTON on the show grounds. as every
employe has been constituted guard
ian for their protection In fact.
nothing has been left undone that
would enhance the comfort, pleasure
and peace Of mind of even the most
aesthetic patron of this great aggrega-
ton.
The Peoria Herald Transcript of
May 8: Should Dixie IT, come and en-
ter as contender in the forty-foot
free-for-all scramble, she will mix into
the hottest tangle of her entire career.
1t will not be such an affair as many
In which she has participated. The
race will not be won before she starts.
She will rot be loafed in order to give
second rate competitors a chance to
keep in sight for few laps She will
start IN a jostling field of fifteen or
eighteen craft, many of which carry
more power than she does. The Dixie
VIII get away amid a roar of compel.
itors and it will be necessary to omen
her throttles to their limit for her to
maintain q place down the first lap on
Peoria lake. If SIZE leads at the first
lap it will be because she has shaken
off boats like the New Hoosier Bow:
the Br'er Fox; the Red Top III; the
Minnie c Ill; the Buffalo Courier H.:
the independence IL; the Syracuse:
the Regan; the Beat 1t, Scripps II. and
half dozen others. There will be a
fistful of yellow money in sight before
she starts, that will go down to say
that Dixie II. will not be able to beat
this field under any conditions-and
1t Will be the first real boat race the
Dixie ever became engaged in.