The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-06
kEokuk IN 1855.

Daily Gate City of June IL, 1855, il
a good state of preservation TIL.
paper at that time was a four pag,
affair, six columns to the page, pub
lished by j. B. Howell & Co. The
! first and fourth pages were giver
over to advertisements exclusively
| The second page contained about
half column Of editorial matter. one
| lonesome article of local news. the
official council proceedings and two
long foreign dispatches. The third
page told of the meeting of the Iowa
Masonic grand lodge at Keosauqua
and of Washington's love affairs. The
latter was the concluding installment
of continued story taken from
Irving's Life of Washington. Other
reading matter there was none.
Keokuk was looking forward to
railroads in those days and the edi-
torial matter had for its subject the
prospects of acquiring the "Missis-
sippi and Wabash" and the "Missis-
sippi Valley lines. A meeting of
the directors of the former company
had just been held in Chicago, at
tended by Colonel Perry of this city.
On his return he reported that an
executive committee of three, com
posed of capable and energetic men,
had been appointed to take charge of
that division of the Mississippi and
Wabash road lying west of the North
ern Cross road, and was fully en-
powered to use the subscriptions made
by and in Hancock county and Keo.
kuk for the purpose of building the
division The article concludes:
Our people now have a golden
opportunity and they should seize it
when they can. If we desire Keokuk
to be known to the world east of us
we must have an eastern railroad
connection. The slightest reflection
will show the great Importance of
this matter, and it behooves US to
strain every nerve to secure a con-
summation so devoutly to be desired
The article relating to the Missis-
sippi Valley road announced that |
the mayor of ST. Louis, under direc-
ton OF the city council, had appoint
ed thirty prominent business men of |
that city to attend convention of
the friends of the project at Hannibal
The st. Louis Republican was quoted /
at some length in encouragement of
the movement. The lone item of city
news referred to above told of a meet
ing of the stockholders of the Keo-
kuk, Fort Des Moines and Minnesota
railroad company held on the previous
day for the purpose of electing direc-
tors. The directors chosen were D.
W. Kilbourne, w. S. McGavic, ]. M.
Hiatt, c. H. Perry, w. Leighton, T. w.
5laggett. Charles Parsons, Ed. Kill
bourne, A. Bridgman, H. T. Reid and
John McCune. The reports showed, 4
among other things, that "s163,00
private subscriptions had been raised;
hat there was good prospect of in
'reasfng this amount to 100000 in
short time; that the board would
Ipply to the city of Keokuk in short
ime for corporate subscription of
100000; that the work on the road
vas already commenced, a strong
'arty being engaged in grubbi g, and
hat large force of hands, teams, Z,
arts, etc, would be at work in few ,
lays ,
The advertisements, as a rule, con-
aimed but very few display lines and |
we're no. classified as is now doae i
whenever possible. The lawyers who
lad cards in The Gate City of that t
late were Edwards & Turner, Clag.
'ett & Dixon, Miller & Beck, A. E.
Chandler, Lloyd D. Simpson, Rankin
Miller and w. w. Belknap. The /
physicians We're E. C. Francis. ].
iaines, j. G. Stewart and John r.
Allen. The dentists were J. X Rickey I
(. 5. Barber and NJ. W. Hicks. H. D. 4
Woodward sold dry goods and cloth {
ng; the Pennsylvania foundry was i
onaucted at Eighth and Main streets t
y = Wickersham & Sons; Stafford {
McCune were the only wholesale
ROGERS represented in the paper. q
Sooert Haines offered his services as E
n architect, and S. w. & H. Tucker i
'ere importers and wholesale dealers q
hardware and cutlery. ]. C. /!
1stes was in the stove business on !
lam street near the leyee. Bruce & .
'anlels dealt in produce and provis- t
ons; B. B. Hinman & Co. were for :
'arding and commission merchants; t
iussey & Mills, real estate brokers e
no auetloneers: Worster, TempIin & .
@. had dry goods store on the \
outhwest corner of Main and Fourth !,
Ireets; a. Shaw conducted family
rocery on the north side of Main
etween Seventh and Eighth streets:
lles Geiser was thankful for patron :,
se accorded him as jeweler; the :,
lily Drug store was in Burrows :
ock on Main street, in charge of J. :
I'd j. G. Stewart; G. NJ. Marshall
lyertised for forty horses for the !
Sc of the United States; Baldwin. = :
vans & Co offered English table
ltlery at reduced prices; James Rey.
bids was in the drug business and w
Farley did carriage painting and
INNING. The steamboats, j. Mckee :,
i'd Ben Campbell made trips between y
eokuk and Rock Island Other boats -
entioned in the advertisements were -
"a Iaor1;n ~