The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-09
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The regular monthly meeting of
the Y. II. c. A. board of directors will
be held tomorrow night.
L. E. Denmire has clean upper
level ice for sale by car lots. For
i prices and rates enquire of A. C. Max.
well. agent Burlington Route.
"A runaway horse belonging to
| Frank Oertel was stopped at the cor
ner of Eleventh and Blondeau streets
this morning. When citizen stop
ped the horse the delivery wagon at
tached was minus one of its, wheels.
/ Masonic: Special meeting Of
Eagle lodge No II, A. F. and A. NJ,
2 p. m. sharp. Tuesday. January 10.
1911, to attend the funeral of Brother
A. L. Ribyn Visiting brethren fra
! ternally invited. BY order of the W.
VI. s.. H. Johnston, Secretary.
The fire apparatus answered a
still alarm at 1910 last night from
COS North Ninth street A chimney
burning out gave trouble. Another
alarm was turned in this morning at
go from the Motif home. ZIG Car
! roll street. Another burning fiue No
damage.
ii. Ross Robertson spent very
restsul night at the hospital Satur-
day and Sunday, considering his con-
dition Mr.. Robertsons condition has
/ been very grave since the operation
he underwent on Saturday, hut
| friends hope with the members of the
| family and relatives that he viii re-
cover shortly.
The annual circus by the physical
department OF the Y. NJ C. A. will be
given in the gymnasium on January
/ 20. A very elaborate program is be-
ing prepared and a splendid evening
/ of entertainment is expected. Many
/ new features will b introduced this
year One Of the most astounding
/ of them all will be diving from a
/ twenty-foot ladder into. six inches of
I water. A large menagerie Is to be
! seen among the many features. The
I circus will have its trained animals,
! hair-raising acrobatic stunts by the
/ associations most clever gymnasts, a
! Japanese boxing feat and clowns ga
| lore
] For the most part, trains are now
/ hack on schedule time once more aft
/ er the zero days of last week. No
| class of workmen welcomed the re-
4 turn to milder weather more than did
the railroad men. as the intense. frig
1 idity worked havoc with running time
/ and passenger and freight crews
worked under difficulties al
/ though the situation was not nearly as
bad as year ago when they had
snow to contend with. 1t has been a
1 very fortunate season for the coal
I dealers, the railroads and consumers
of coal, considering the fact that
there has been much talk Of short
age at the mines Altogether there
I has been less coal burned this sea-
son than year ago at the same
time.
Chief Anderson ordered all fire
! apparatus out, on the first alarm yes
1 terday on account of the gale of wind
/ that was blowing, all Sunday. The
/ west end reel will answer all alarms
hereafter as protection to the bust
! ness district The time has come
when, or rather it was long while
{ ago the entire department is
! needed to answer all alarms. The
I matter of districting came up today
before the commissioners and the
I chief of the department and some rad
| ical changes from the old is expected
| some time in the near future. The
/ need of more fire apparatus has long
been known. Keokuk has been I'M
/ usually fortunate in the fact that she
4 mas suffered no severe fire losses as
many another city has and even with
the insufficient force that is now en-
/ ployed the damage to property has
Il been kept to a minimum by alert en-
J ployes and conservative districtinS
and good work.
A telephone booth will soon be
i installed in the fire stations SO that
in answering calls the firemen may
4 De aDle 10 near uiSliUGlis 'ldl Sci,-
! trail tells them when giving an alarm
( or when anyone else is communicating
with the stations, there will not be
continuous buzz and hub-bub and
the message be lost or incorrectly
| heard One of the things that caused
/ the commissioner of the department
to decide on the booths for the fire
houses occurred recently The Tenth
street and Sixth street stations took
the alarm differently. What was the
surprise of the men on the apparatus,
when the Sixth street reels were
dashing up Main at 2:4o clip and
the Tenth street hose reel was going
down Main at gait that would have
n1ade Barney O'dfield look pale about
the gills. That was only one in
stance. Many more occur during the
progress of a year mistakes, be
cause the MESSAGE over the 'phone is
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