The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-01
CITY NEWS.

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Are you voting in the popular con.
test? Colonial. theatre beautiful, to-
night.
Jos. Steiger is able to be about
again after an illness Of several days.
He was i'll with the grip
"A marriage license was issued to-
day to Thomas A. Floyd of Newberry,
S. c., and Miss Fannie l.. Hudson OF
Aledo, Ill.
Two crowded houses witnessed
the standing Of the young ladies con-
test at the Colonial, theatre beautiful,
last night. Considerable interest is
being shown.
Regular meeting of the Order of
Owls tonight at their hall, corner
Third and Johnson streets. Visiting
Owls invited. BY order of Worthy
President Paul T. Pechstein. see
rotary.
Mrs. Henry Conn was taken to
Graham hospital this morning, suffer
ing from inflammatory rheumatism
The Red Cross ambulance was used
to convey the sick lady to the hospital.
George Knies, railway mail clerk,
has been transferred from Mason City
to the Keokuk-Red Oak run of the
keokuk & Western road. Mr.. Knies
has already assumed his duties here
and his wife will come to this city to
reside in the near future.
Attend the Hipodrome afternoon
and evening, at 609 Main street. Mr..
and Mrs. LeGere are managing this
popular skating rink, which is cater
ing to only ladies and gentlemen's
patronage. Enjoy 70 lrself at the Hip
odrome and see the vaudeville stunts
which are on this week.
March did not come in like lion
this morning, but the weather was
more lamb-like. Owing to the fog and
dampness of the morning, March can
be said to have come in this year like
a dipped sheep. 1t should therefore
go out just the opposite-cold and
dry-and the end of the month will
| probably resemble a frozen camel
more than a roaring lion.
The twenty-five travelling sales
men of the Huiskamp Brothers shoe
company who have been in the
"house" for the past several days
making up their trunks with new
spring and summer samples, have fer
the most part, left the city again. The
Huiskamp Shoe house has one of the
largest representative forces in this
section of the country, and every par
of the United States, most extensive
s ly in the west, is travelled by them
in representing the large local con
Germ.
The public will soon be able tc
take advantage of the offer of the
Western Union Telegraph Co. tt
handle long night messages at thu
rates customarily charged for ten da,
word messages. This new system, i
5 declared, will be put in operation Oh
Or about March H. It will be know
as a special night letter service ant
by the terms to be submitted by tn,
company any person may send fit.
, words or less at cost similar to tn.
: amount charged for sending ten word
at the regular day rate. Furthermor,
one-fffth of the standard rate will b,
! charged for each additional ten word
or less. 1t is expected that the new
service will be utilized of to larg,
: extent by business concerns.
The national tournament now un
: DO. in ,,,i11 y Fol
with considerable interest in Keokuk
A dispatch from that city tells of Thu
third days play as follows: TIL,
third day of the tenth annual tc--na
ment OF the American Bowling asso
citation ended with 2,803 as the higl
mark among the fve-men teams
LOG as the best in the doubles an,
6o6 leading in the singles. The Col
onials, of Madison, Wis, were tn,
. sensation of the fiye-men squads will
grand total of 2,So3, with S91, 1,01.
and 1872. This was the highest total
; and their 1919 in the second gam,
was the highest game of the series
All the men on the five rolled consist
emily brit not brilliantly. c. Luckens
meyer teaming with an average O
FOG 1-3 and the high game wit 243
The Blue Ribbons, of Erie, Pa, rolled
into second place with 1895. TIL.
Randy Kids, OF Madison, Wis, tool
temporary possession of third place
with 2,647 The high individual game
was raised to 257 by Otto Wahl, O
Cleveland.
Mt. Pleasant News: Presiden
Schell of Iowa Wesleyan wore a rad
iating smile out at Senator Seeley':
palatial residence on Broadway this
morning. Senator Seeley had jus
announced to him that he would star
the Mt Pleasant subscriptions to The
100000 endowment fund, which mus
be completed by the first of April
with $4,000 All of which is to be appli
ed on the first 100000 He rendered
a fine piece of land, forty-eight and ;
half acres, income producing, ant
rented for the year. DR.. Schell i'm