The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-21
CITY NEWS.

big circulation.
Fly nets at cost at Sherwood's.
Carl Sauer, who was operated on
for appendicitis at st. JOseph's hos
pital a short time ago has recovered
sufficiently to be removed to his home
this week.
The Women's Foreign missionary
society of Swedish M. 3. church will
meet at the residence of Mrs. L. Mel
son, 1904 Oak street, Tuesday even
Ing.
Il. G. Echelberger, Of 1912 Des
Moines street, severely injured his
foot while at work on the dam Sat
urday and will be laid up for about a /
week as result.
Protect your horse with a fly net
bought for little money at Sherwood's.
/, James McCarty, a Lee county
young man, has bought the hardware
business OF Hawkins and Applebaum
at 1900 Main street. He will at AL
times carry complete stock and asks
a share of the public's patronage.
When in need of hardware call on
him.
Henry Argast of Nauvoo last week
sold the pearl he found few months
| ago to pearl buyer for $780, THIS
is the best price ever paid for a pearl
there. The pearl was not a very large
one, only IS grains, but it was per-
feet one. with a fine lustre. Henry
still has another pearl Of lesser value.
The fire department made a run
to the club house at the baseball
grounds Sunday afternoon at Q o'clock.
A spark from the chimney on the club
house set fire to the roof. Water Is
heated for the use of the ball players
and the fire in the furnace was the
cause of the slight blaze which burn
ed hole three or four feet square in
the roof. Aside from this no other
damage was done.
The Mems class of the First
Christian church Sunday school will
visit the Baraca class of the First
Presbyterian church at Warsaw next
Sunday morning, leaving on the S:45
car This decision wasa reached Sun
day morning when the class decided
to return the visit of the Warsaw men.
, It was decided desirable to make the
, trip next Sunday as Mr.. Boyd's class.
; beginning the first Sunday in Septem-
.. Der, will begin the fall campaign in
, earnest and endeavor to lift the at
. tendance to more than one hundred.
: Editor David Brant of the Iowa
City Republican has accused the man
agement of the Fort Madison peniten-
tiary of having disregarded the laws
prohibiting solitary confinement for
more than ten consecutive days and
enters as a specific claim that L. w.
Haley was confined to the solitary
for more than two weeks by the auth
critics. Editor Brant also charges
that the parole board has released
pets of the warden" and that the
last three convicts paroled by the
board were men who have knowledge
of which Haley depends to substan
tiate the written charges which he
sent to the Register and Leader.
Rev. Father Kissane of st. Peters
! Catholic church. conducted funera
services this morning for the late
Genevieve. little eight year old daugh
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel v. Cox
whose death occurred in Chicago las
Saturday morning. The little schoo
girls of st. Peters school, ATTENDED
the services held at the church, in
body, attired In white, and the youni
boy members of the classes wer
also present, marking by their pres
ence thu love they held for the dc
ceased child and scho oImate Fou
boys, Chas. McGaughy, John Dickey
Dwyer Moore and Patrick Farrahe
were the pallbearers.
i Deputy Game Warden AdaI
I Weirather has issued warning t
| hunters who attempt to shoot befor
receiving their hunting license bu
! who are able to exhibit receipts. Fl
says these receipts are not sufficier
and hunters must wait until they
ceive the necessary license. It ha
- been the custom in the past for hun
ers to apply for license and In pa.
ing for it they are given a receiI
from the deputy auditor. Often it
some time before the license is r.
ceived In the meantime they go OIL
and when questioned show the r
ceipt. Weirather says that this Is
violation of the law
When the river steamboat Blac
Hawk was few miles south of Blu
lington on Its return trip Sunday,
distress signal was made out on tt
Iowa shore and the boat landed
take on logger, who had almo
severed part of his right foot viii
u cutting a binder. The accident he
happened two hours before and I
. medical assistance could be snmmo
ed, so the injured man decided to ha'
the boat signalled in order that
could go to a town TO the south
have his foot attended to- The &
we're cut had been cleaned and ban
aged, but as he hobbled on the DO
by means of his improvised and crud
ly constructed clutches and the
sistance of comrades the blood cou
be seen to ooze from all parts of &