The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-02
CITY NEWS.

Drivers supplies at Sherwoods.
Many good resolution made on
New Years day, has already been
broken.
The many college students who
have been visiting at home during the
holidays, will begin leaving this week
for their colleges to complete the
term
Up to yesterday, the present win
ter has been mild one, but some
real old fashioned cold weather can
be expected during the next sixty
days
This was rather quiet day in
Keokuk. being observed generally
as New Years. The postoffice and
banks observed holiday hours and the
majority Of the business houses were
closed.
Smoke Moeller's Silver Ash sc cigar
The new wear was ushered in
with great deal of noise Saturday
night. The report Of shot guns and
revolvers could be heard all over the
city at the midnight hour and several
whistles were too ed by night watch
men and engineers on locomotives.
Masonic: regular meeting of Eagle
Lodge No. IL. A. F. and A. NJ, 7:30
O'Clock, tuesday evening January
EST 1911. Visiting brethren fraternal.
ly invited. BY order of the ". M. S..
n. Johnston, secretary.
Regular meeting OF Knights and
Ladies Of Security, Keokuk Council
No. 1889 at A. o. o. w. hall at 8
o'clock. Meet the first and third
Monday of each month.
Every Keokuk citizen sould re-
solve to help make this year the best
one in the history of the city 1t is
an opportune time to start move
ment that will have for it's purpose
the enlargement OF Keokuk that will
be in keeping with the big water
power enterprise
At the annual meeting of the
stockholders q. the Keokuk Savings
Bank held today at the bank corner
Fifth and Main streets the following
directors were reelected for the en-
suing year: A. E. tombstone, F. w.
Davis, B l. ,uwerda, Ben B. Jew
ell and Howard L. Connable.
-Keokuk newspapermen who know
Robert Henderson will wish him well
in his efforts to receive the appoint
ment of state printer and binder. Mr..
Henderson is connected with the edi-
torial section of The Council Bluffs
Nonpariel and is one OF the best
known and best liked newspaper men
in the state.
Sherwood -or harness repairs.
One of the younger business men
makes the pertinent suggestion that
Keokuk in some way mark the first
announcement that the Keokuk and
Hamilton Water Power Co. would
build the dam acroscs the Mississippi
river. The Daily Gate City in an ex-
ira edition that reached almost elev-
en- thousand copies made the first an.
nouncement that the dam would be
built on the 9Th of January, 1910. It
is just about one year since the good
news was received. It's celebration
would be appropriate.
The monthly weather summary
for December has just been issued by
Observer Gosewisch and shows that
there were nineteen clear days last
month, with the coolest day on the
day before Christmas at four degrees.
and the warmest days on the 14th
and 18th, at forty-nine degrees each
The mean temperature was twenty
nine degrees which is about the usual
average perhaps trifle colder than
the past few years. The total rain
fall was less than an inch, which is
below the average for December.
Practically every Roman Catholic
priest in the Chicago diocese took the
oath recently prescribed by Pope Plus
X, at conference held in the Holy
Name Cathedral. OF the $50 priests
in the diocese more than GOO took the
oath. All had to go through the
formality before December 81. Under
orders issued by the pope it is de-
manded that every Roman Catholic
priest in the world make sworn pro.
fession of faith before the last day of
1his year. Although the document
Is long one and includes many com
plicated phrases, it includes nothing
new or novel. The purpose in admin
lstering the oath is to stop the spread
OF modernism" in the Catholic re-
ligion and insure the orthodoxy of all
OF the priests who preach in the
church
Thousands OF the tinseled or mica
covered postcards will never reach
their destination. They are ruled out
OF the mails by the department. Prac-
ticaily every one of the cards being
held up to be forwarded to the dead
letter office bears some Christmas
greeting to friend or relative in
some distant point Many of the
senders will wonder why their cards
never reached their destinations. and
prospective donors will likewise think
1t strange that they had no message
from the loved one back home" The
postoffice department made its rul.
Ing about two years ago. when the
post card fad was assuming big nro-