The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
CITY NEWS.

nAcAMduuS, DOtn phones. OIHce, NlHtu
and Johnson.
You will have little trouble in
making up your Christmas shopping
list II you read The Gate City ad-
yertisements.
The hallway leading to the city
offices and the Odd Fellows hall on
Seventh street, is being refreshed with
paint and paper.
The little three year old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Sturgeon OF Six
teenth and Walnut street, died last
night at six o'clock from spasms
Rev. J.. G. Mccain, pastor of the
Methodist Protestant church of this
city, is conducting week Of revival
services in the M. P. church at St.
Francisville, Mo-
Knights and Ladies of Security,
keokuk council No. 1899, will meet
In regular session at o'clock at A.
10. U. w. hall Monday evening. A
large attendance is desired
Regular meeting Keokuk Council
No. 536 tonight at s o'clock, Hawkes.
hall. Eighth and Main. Visiting breth-
rem fraternally invited to attend. G.
M. vogler, regent; J. l. Annable, sec
rotary.
"A special train of coaches and a
baggage car carrying 'SThe Girl l
Love- show company will arrive here
this evening at o'clock from the
south. The train left Quincy at $3.50
this afternoon
Sherwood for big new line Of
latest laprobes and auto blankets.
Mr.. and Mrs. John H. DeYoung.
and children Edith. Atwilda and John
are again residing at their home, I'll
Blondeau street The DeYoungs re-
Gently returned from Idaho where
they have been living for number
of months to benefit Mr.. DeYoung's
health.
~. w. C. A. course seat sale opens
Tuesday at 10 a. m. Five numbers
$3.50 and SLIPS.
The cloth which holds the ashes
tos paper around the furnace pipes
of the Baptist church, caught On fire
in two places last evening during
the service and the congregation
smelled the smoke but there was no
panic. After church had been dis
missed an investigation was made and
still alarm was answered by the
department at o'clock There was
no damage.
! The Y. W. G. A. course consists
entirely of first class musical and
dramatic talent, because there is no
lecture offered the tickets sell at tie
low cost Of $3.50 and s1.25.
4 The state railroad commission
has directed Commerce Counsel
Henderson to take charge of an in
vestigation of the interstate rate on
butter. eggs and poultry out of Iowa
Complaint has been filed with the
commission that the railroads are
charging two cents more than their
published tariffs allow. The COM
plant was filed by H. A. Rhynesberg-
er of Pella. He declares that practi-
! cally all of the railroads are giving
the Iowa butter, eggs and poultry
dealers the worst of it in the matter
of freight rates to other states on
these products,
Governor Carroll has been asked
to prevent the destruction of an iron
pole which Robert E. Lee and Jeffer-
son Davis erected in northeastern
| Iowa long before the civil war The
pole marks the boundary line between
| Minnesota and Iowa and is located
near the town of New Albin, in Ala
makee county. The pole was erected
| by the United States government.
Lieutenant Robert e. Lee commanded
| the engineer corps and Lieutenant
jeff Davis the infantry company
which had charge of the survey de-
termining the state line and erecting
the monuments marking that bound.
airy line. Gravel pits are being dug
around the pole, and Ellison Orr of
Waukon has asked the governor to
take steps to preserve it
Railroads cannot be held to be
negligent because they don't attach
| fr1eght cars containing perishable or
sick freight to passenger trains to
hasten movement, according to a
ruling made by the supreme court.
Pine Brothers Of Diagonal bought a
/ fine horse at Bushnell, Ill, and shipp-
ed it over the Burlington. The freight
made the schedule time advertised by
the company. The horse became
en- route and Pine Brothers asked
the company to attach the car to a
passenger train. The company re-
fused and the horse died en- route,
Pine Brothers sued for the value OF
the horse, charging negligence by the
railroad company. The supreme
court says: The failure to acceler.
ate movement of freight by attaching
freight cars to passenger trains can,
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